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Thursday, July 9,2009
Man sentenced in child-scalding case
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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A concerned mother
What in the world was this mother thinking seeing the man that hurt her baby? It makes no sense to me at all. Why would you willing see a person that had done harm to one of God's little Angels that he gives to us to take care of and protect. I think the mother needs to be checked into to see why she is to carless with her child. Granted I don't know the circumstances, but to see the person again doesn't say much for her judgement. Hopefully she will never let this happen to her child again or have anything to do with people that would hurt and innocent child.
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mike
I'm in CA. and my 2 daugthers live with his worthless mom and it seem like they don't care excect to party. I met Amber and she has 4 or five kids by 3 different fathers, I have been trying for a long time to get those 2 girls out of that town to no provile. Andrew' dad Chad doesn't what anything to do with him hes been doing drugs and drinking for a long time he left here in 2003, sad to what turned out there in a small town and nothing to do, MIKE California:'(
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mike
Andrews mother is Loretta L. Atkinsin in Newmarshfield, my ex not Amber, my daugthers are 4, 9 , theres nothing for them in athens its sad Mikey jr 23 can't talk to them
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