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A young boy drowned in a swimming lagoon in Hayward, California, despite the fact that lifeguards were on duty.

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.

As if it wasn’t enough to witness her own mother’s death, a little 5-year-old girl has to testify in the murder trial of Manuel Urango, accused of shooting Alia Ansari in the head while she walked her daughter to preschool. That poor kid is going to need some serious counseling.

Her daughter, who was 3 years old at the time of the October 2006 incident, sat on her father’s lap while testifying. A prosecutor asked her several times whether Urango was the man who killed her mother, but the girl said she didn’t want to talk about it.

“She doesn’t want to answer,” a court-appointed interpreter answered for the child, who speaks Farsi.

Urango was arrested on a parole violation within an hour of the killing because his car matched a description given by witnesses, authorities said. He was charged with murder four months later because tests revealed gunshot residue on his hands.