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A “man” in Hayward, California has been charged with 4 felony counts for holding an infant under scalding hot water. The report says that the 16-month-old suffered “unimaginable agony” — which we think perhaps this guy should be subjected to in return, no?

Christian Perez, 20, was charged with child abuse, child endangerment, torture and aggravated mayhem. He’s been held without bail at the Hayward police station since his arrest Thursday, Orrey said.

Emergency dispatchers initially summoned firefighters to the DMV parking lot on Soto Road and Jackson Street in response to a 9-1-1 call claiming a baby was suffering from convulsions.

The baby was found be unresponsive and convulsing and was immediately taken to Children’s Hospital Oakland, Orrey said. Firefighters, suspecting possible child abuse, contacted police.

Christian Perez told Special Victims Unit detectives that the baby suffered burns while he was giving him a shower at his home on the 2700 block of Melbourne Avenue, an explanation they thought to be inconsistent with the boy’s injuries, Orrey said.

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.