Man Jailed For Putting Girlfriend’s 2 Year Old Son In Clothes Dryer Reaching 180 Degrees

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A man from New Hampshire who put his girlfriend’s two-year-old son in a running clothes dryer, leaving him with serious burns, has been jailed for three years.

28-year-old Adam Morton, of Berlin, New Hampshire, was taking care of the little boy in August 2014 while his 24-year-old partner was at work.

Instead of caring for her child, he shoved the youngster into a clothes dryer that was already running producing scorching heat at levels close to 180 degrees Fahrenheit.

The youngster suffered second-degree burns on his arms and back as well as burns and blisters to his feet after being put inside the laundry drum.

His burns were in a distinct pattern that matched the drum of the dryer. 

He also had bruises all over his body and cuts that matched bolts on the inside of the appliance, according to court documents.

Police seized the dryer and through testing determined it could quickly reach temperatures of up to 180 degrees in just three minutes.

Morton claimed he put his girlfriend’s toddler in the dryer for just one revolution.

However, investigators determined that the boy was in the dryer for a prolonged period.

Dr Lawrence Ricci, who conducted his own forensic examination of the boy concluded ‘there were lesions on the lower back that looked like they could have been healing burns and incidentally, the two circular lesions correspond to bolts on the inside of the dryer.’

Dr Ricci also said that ‘the distribution of the burns indicates either that the child was moving fairly dramatically and or the dryer was moving.

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