Boy, 4, dies after being plunged into boiling water as punishment by stepmother

The boy's 25-year-old stepmother has been arrested and charged with child endangerment

A 4-year-old boy has died after being put in boiling water by his stepmother as a punishment, it has been reported. 
Ohio police were called to the home of Anna Ritchie, 25, on Wednesday morning after she reported that she awoke to find her step son Austin Cooper was not breathing. Medics tended to the scene but could not revive the child.

Ritchie told police that she had put Austin’s legs in boiling water as a punishment the evening beforehand, CBS News reports. She says that she put the child to bed that evening and did not believe he was seriously injured.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boy-4-dies-after-being-put-in-boiling-water-as-punishment-by-stepmother-a6938146.html


That made me cry, poor little boy, some people are just so sick it's beyond belief.

That mad woman should be locked away in a psychiatric ward for the rest of her life.

sassy wrote:The boy's 25-year-old stepmother has been arrested and charged with child endangerment

A 4-year-old boy has died after being put in boiling water by his stepmother as a punishment, it has been reported. 
Ohio police were called to the home of Anna Ritchie, 25, on Wednesday morning after she reported that she awoke to find her step son Austin Cooper was not breathing. Medics tended to the scene but could not revive the child.

Ritchie told police that she had put Austin’s legs in boiling water as a punishment the evening beforehand, CBS News reports. She says that she put the child to bed that evening and did not believe he was seriously injured.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boy-4-dies-after-being-put-in-boiling-water-as-punishment-by-stepmother-a6938146.html


That made me cry, poor little boy, some people are just so sick it's beyond belief.

Absolutely horrendous, I could cry..

There is so much scum in this country as well, it makes you concerned for our future.

She looks like a scrapyard mastiff, bit like the so called mutha of
'Baby P'

I cannot even find words.

I know, it makes you cringe inside.

If I read these kind of things they haunt me for days.
It actually makes me mood so dark and depressed.

Me too, in fact the state of the world and people's attitudes does the same.