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A man who severely burned his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son by holding his hands under hot water will be facing the possibility of life in prison when he is sentenced in September.

Daniel Morgan Gass, 23, of Stafford County, was convicted of four charges Friday in Stafford Circuit Court, including aggravated malicious wounding.

According to the evidence, Gass and 23-year-old Karen Lynn Reed were staying together in a Stafford motel when the incident took place sometime between Dec. 31 and Jan. 19. Frank said evidence showed Gass forced the child to hold his hands under scalding hot water for an extended period of time as a form of punishment.

The couple then relocated to Culpeper County, where someone contacted Child Protective Services and expressed concern about the boy. CPS workers made a welfare check Jan. 24 and removed bandages from the child’s hands.

The wounds were bleeding and the boy’s skin was peeling, Frank said, and the boy was immediately flown to the VCU Medical Center in Richmond. Doctors there determined that the child had been “tortured and grossly neglected” and discovered injuries in various stages of healing to the child’s spleen, pancreas and liver.

Gass and Reed initially told authorities that the child had fallen into a bonfire, but Reed later admitted that Gass had inflicted the damage. Reed is not suspected of hurting the child directly, but has been convicted for not seeking medical attention for her son.

The child has been placed in foster care.
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Boil him with the occasional break so that he can have his internal organs tenderized with two-by-fours and cinder blocks.

He needs time behind bars for sure. Also full castration.
She needs to have her baby plant forcibly closed down and mothballed. Give her five years for being stupid.
 
Honestly she looks like he kept her dope fucked and scared but maternal instincts should have rose high above all that shit! The sad part is she will eventually get the child back or have more.. if she couldn’t protect this little one she’ll never have the backbone to be what any child needs in the future under any circumstances.. you can’t learn that shit in jail or parenting classes..
 
Dumbasses. Fire burns and scalding burns do not look the same as far as I know. I could be wrong. But the child is also 3 years old, so unless he has some mental or physical inability, he is old enough to describe what happened to his hands. I can't imagine the pain the poor tot was in, having had burned hands for five days without proper care.
 
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A couple charged earlier this year with felony child abuse in a case involving a severely burned 3-year-old has been found guilty and sentenced.

Karen L. Reed, the child’s mother, and her fiancé Daniel Gass, 23, pleaded guilty earlier this year to the crime discovered on January 24. That’s when a Culpeper County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to a camper to check on the welfare of a young child living there with the two adults, according to a CCSO news release at the time.

The toddler was found with bandaged hands and a large lump on the forehead. The child was subsequently airlifted to a Richmond burn center where more extensive injuries were uncovered.

Reed was sentenced to 10 years in jail with five years suspended. Gass was sentenced to 10 years in jail with three years and nine months suspended.

Both defendants are facing additional related charges in Stafford County.
 
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