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Attorneys in Kansas say 27-year-old Aron Pritchard, was punishing his girlfriend's children when he stuffed them in a clothes dryer and turned it on. The three-year-old boy, and his two-year-old sister, were allegedly jammed into the dryer after the boy urinated in his pants. The girl was uninjured, but the boy suffered second degree burns that went untreated for more than a week. Ardy Wuthnow, Children's grandfather, said, "It's heartbreaking. I've seen him now, since all this has taken place and there's permanent scars." The children's mother left their father when he returned from military service in Iraq. The biological...