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An Athens man charged with having scalded his girlfriend’s 20-month-old daughter with hot bathwater has been sentenced to almost five years in prison, after pleading guilty to child endangerment, escape and violating his community control probation.
Andrew W. Hutchins, 21, was charged in December with felonious assault and child endangerment, after the county sheriff’s office investigated a report from O’Bleness Memorial Hospital that doctors there had treated a toddler with first- and second-degree burns. Hutchins is alleged to have been watching the child at its mother’s home in Athens.
Later, more charges were filed against Hutchins, after authorities discovered that he had allegedly been visiting the mother of his alleged young victim during a furlough from jail, which he was granted to visit a doctor.
On Friday, Hutchins pled guilty to the charges listed above, and judge L. Alan Goldsberry agreed to dismiss other charges pending against him, including felonious assault.
Goldsberry sentenced Hutchins to three years in prison on the endangering charge, one year on the escape charge, and 11 months of an underlying sentence for the probation violation, which was connected to a 2007 felony case. The terms are to run consecutively.
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