Photo: Penny Sue Tucker, Carl Luebken and Crystal Allen.
Three people have been charged for paddling an Izard County woman, including her sister who demanded her sister be released from the hospital because they needed her money. Thirty-five-year-old Carl Luebken, 34-year-old Crystal Allen and the women’s sister, 61-year-old Penny Sue Tucker, are facing two felonies each in connection with the abuse.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Izard County Sheriff’s Office, they were first notified of the abuse by the Mountain Home Police Department after they were contacted by officials from Baxter Regional Medical Center. When the victim was being admitted for another condition, hospital personnel witnessed bruising on the the victim’s buttock.