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A 3-year-old boy was "severely" beaten and abused -- including being burned with scalding water -- by six adults, in a consistent and coordinated form of punishment, New Jersey officials said. Patricia Gamarra, 62, Mary Buchan, 55, Patricia Buchan, 28, Bridget Buchan, 23, Natacha Smith, 43, and Homer Searcy, 39, were arrested and charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of the toddler, Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement Wednesday. Smith is the 3-year-old boy’s mother, though it’s unclear if the five others have any relation to the child. The six people were living in the home...

A trick where boiling water is thrown in the air to instantly turn into snow in the bitingly cold US weather became a viral hit this week, as metereologists and TV reporters illustrated just how freezing it is in the polar vortex. But now it seems Americans are feeling the backlash of the stunt after trying it themselves in the -30 degree weather. The LA Times found that at least 50 people on social media complained that they or their friends were scalded by hot water on Monday and Tuesday. Others have posted photos of their injuries on Instagram, and...

Hayward, CA - Sentencing is set for March for a Hayward man convicted of torturing and murdering his girlfriend's 18-month old child. A jury convicted Christian Perez on charges including second-degree murder, torture, and child abuse in the death of Eli Rojas. Prosecutors told the jury Perez placed the child in 150-degree water, causing the baby's skin to come off. Perez then enlisted help from his sister and her husband to go to Walgreens to get ointment for the burn. The child died two months later after a seizure. The sister and her husband were convicted for their parts in...

The 9-year-old boy went outside without his godmother's permission. His punishment was to sit in a bathtub as the woman filled it with five pots of boiling water. When he emerged from the scalding water, the lower half of his body was covered in severe burns. The woman waited four days to take him to a hospital. The facts read into the court record during Shamia Lawson's plea agreement in November were horrific, making her punishment yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court all the more shocking to city prosecutors and the boy's relatives: six months behind bars. Lawson, 25, had been...

Severe terms in scalding Man gets 6-15 years for burning boy, 7, in tub of water Wednesday, June 29, 2005 BY ART AISNER News Staff Reporter "At least I can deal with adults that afflict pain on each other ... but the pain you inflicted on this young boy is almost beyond my comprehension,'' Circuit Judge Donald Shelton told Byron McFarlin before sentencing him to 6-15 years in prison Tuesday. The punishment was the most severe Shelton could impose under the state's sentencing guidelines, which he agreed not to exceed when McFarlin pleaded no contest to one count of first-degree...

Inmate: Scalding was no accident Web-posted Feb 11, 2005 Prisoner testifies woman accused in slaying admitted in jail she intended to kill the child By STEPHEN FRYE Of The Daily Oakland Press An Oakland County jail inmate testified Thursday that Letitia Johnson, accused of scalding to death her boyfriend's 21-month-old daughter, asked her for advice on looking remorseful. "Her mother said she was smiling on TV," the inmate said. "I told her, 'I can't teach you how to be remorseful.'" The fellow prisoner, who is not being identified at the request of prosecutors, said she came forward because of a...

<p>State police say 2-year-old boy apparently put his little brother in tub of White County house.</p> <p>Indiana State Police in Lafayette are investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy from Monon who was found with second degree burns inside a bathtub at his home.</p>

<p>Michael Hughes Griffin admitted Friday that he killed his girlfriend's 2-year-old son by placing him in scalding water in 1998.</p> <p>When Cortez Taylor died from the burns weeks later, Griffin placed him in a garbage bag and buried him in the back yard of a crack house, according to court records. The child's remains were unearthed in 2000.</p>