Single dad says he took 1-month-old son out of bath and poured pitcher of scalding hot water on him because he was cold after 'air-drying' didn't work: Cops

An Idaho begetter says helium poured scalding blistery h2o connected his 1-month-old son due to the fact that the lad was acold pursuing a bath — giving him second-degree burns connected astir 25% of his assemblage — aft helium tried "air-drying" him to support him lukewarm but it didn't work, cops report.

Christopher Stum, 34, is charged with felony counts of wounded to a kid and destruction, alteration oregon concealment of evidence, according to online tribunal records.

Court documents obtained by East Idaho News impeach Stum of adjusting the h2o heater successful his location from 150 degrees Fahrenheit to 121 degrees Fahrenheit successful an effort to mislead police. He allegedly did this earlier taking his lad to a section hospital, wherever the baby was treated connected Jan. 22.

Stum, who is the lone genitor successful the home, told investigators helium noticed his babe lad was acold aft bathing him, truthful helium filled up a pitcher with blistery h2o from the bathtub's faucet and dumped it connected him, per the tribunal documents. He allegedly tried "air-drying" the lad to lukewarm him up, but it wasn't working.

Stum told constabulary that aft getting the blistery h2o poured connected him, the babe began screaming successful symptom arsenic his tegument rapidly reddened and began to peel off, according to the tribunal documents. Stum rushed the lad to the exigency country and helium was treated for second-degree burns connected 24% of his body.

Authorities were notified and interviewed Stum, who allegedly admitted to pouring the h2o connected the victim. He claimed to person enactment his digit successful the pitcher to trial the heat, saying helium didn't judge it would pain the boy, earlier yet admitting that it was scalding, the East Idaho News reports, citing the tribunal docs.

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Police went to Stum's location and allegedly recovered that the h2o heater was astatine 121 degrees. He aboriginal confessed to cops that helium had adjusted the h2o heater, arsenic doctors reported that the burns his lad suffered were apt from h2o that was betwixt 130 and 150 degrees, the tribunal docs state.

Stum allegedly admitted that helium knew the h2o successful his location heated up accelerated and recounted instances wherever he, himself, was burned by it. He was arrested and booked astatine the Bonneville County Jail, with a preliminary hearing date acceptable for Feb. 11, according to tribunal records.