WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A 22-year-old North Carolina woman who put her toddler in boiling water and burned his foot with a cigarette has been sentenced to prison.
Multiple media outlets reported Tuesday that Tabitha Rich pleaded guilty to two felony counts of inflicting serious injury to her then-33-month-old son.
She received a 25- to 39-month sentence on each, to run consecutively.
Prosecutors said Rich put her son in a pan of boiling water in October 2008 as punishment because he was constipated. He was treated for third-degree burns on his bottom.
The child also had other injuries and a cigarette burn on his left foot.
Rich was ordered to have no contact with her son and to receive parenting training.
Her boyfriend was charged last month with assault and a first-degree sex offense.
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