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Aron Pritchard, of Hutchinson, Kansas, is being accused of child abuse for putting his girlfriend’s kids, ages 2 and 3, into a clothes dryer where one of the children suffered bad burns. At the time of his arrest it was alleged he put them in there as punishment, but in his trial that began this week Pritchard now claims that it was all just for fun.

In a videotaped interview with detectives shown in court Wednesday, Aron Pritchard said he put the children in the dryer to show them they could have a good time without much money. An hour later, the dryer had become hot and the boy had second-degree burns.

Pritchard told the detective that he didn’t mean for the boy to get hurt.

Jurors also heard from a pediatrician who testified that the burns, combined with prior injuries including a twice-broken clavicle, could indicate an abusive environment.