Police
have charged a Virginia father with felony child abuse after they say
he dipped his 9-month-old daughter in scalding hot water.
The child was brought to a Spotsylvania County emergency room with extensive immersion-type burns, The Free Lance-Star reports.
She was stabilized and later transferred to Virginia Commonwealth
University Medical Center in Richmond for advanced burn treatment.
Police
arrested the baby's father, 24-year-old William Schmuhl, on felony
child abuse charges. Delphine Timberlake, the baby's maternal
grandmother, says she already has custody of three of her daughter's
children, all under the age of six. She plans to seek custody of the
baby as well.
In
2013, Schmuhl was charged with injuring his girlfriend's 4-month-old
son. X-rays showed the child had multiple broken ribs, a broken arm and
skull fractures.
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