Tamela Peterson, the CEO of the Oxford Center (which has locations in Brighton and Troy), ran away from detectives when they asked for her cellphone and had her son scrub her laptop days after 5-year-old Thomas Cooper was burned alive inside one of the center’s hyperbaric oxygen chambers on Jan. 31, according to police.
Still, police found electronic messages on Peterson’s devices, said Troy Detective Danielle Trigger, including an exchange in which Peterson sent photos of the boy’s burning body and wrote “something to the effect of: ‘If my leg was on fire, I would at least try to hit it and put it out. He just laid there and did nothing.’”
Peterson’s messages also show that, when she was asked whether the company was promoting hyperbaric chambers to treat erectile dysfunction, she responded: “Whatever gets bodies in those chambers, lol,” according to a transcript of Trigger’s testimony March 7 before 52-4 District Court Magistrate Elizabeth Chiappelli, which was obtained by the Detroit Free Press…