SALISBURY, Md.- A Salisbury woman, who pleaded guilty to first-degree child abuse after her toddler son was scalded in a bathtub, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday.
Eight years were suspended for 27-year-old Wynita Everette Dale, who will also be eligible for the Patuxtent Youthful Offender Program.
Dale pleaded guilty in November, less than two weeks after a judge convicted her mother, 45-year-old Joanne Evette Gale, also of Salisbury, on two counts of first-degree child abuse and related offenses.
Prosecutors said that back in June, Dale placed her 3-year-old son in a bathtub full of scalding water as punishment for a potty training incident. The child, who sustained second-degree burns to the lower half of his body, was initially treated at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. His skin was so badly blistered that he had to be transported to the Johns Hopkins Burn Center in Baltimore.
After her arrest, Dale told investigators she placed her son in the hot water because her mother, Gale, had told her to do so.
A sentencing hearing for Gale is scheduled for Feb. 17.
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