Multiple media outlets reported Tuesday that Tabitha Rich pleaded guilty to two felony counts of inflicting serious injury to her then-33-month-old son. She received a 25- to 39-month sentence on each, to run consecutively.

That’s IT?!?!

Her boyfriend was charged last month with assault and a first-degree sex offense.

The plot thickens. This story isn’t over. And, unfortunately for this poor baby boy, it will never be over. But thanks for the updates.

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A 22-year-old North Carolina woman who put her toddler in boiling water and burned his foot with a cigarette has been sentenced to prison.

Multiple media outlets reported Tuesday that Tabitha Rich pleaded guilty to two felony counts of inflicting serious injury to her then-33-month-old son. She received a 25- to 39-month sentence on each, to run consecutively.

Prosecutors said Rich put her son in a pan of boiling water in October 2008 as punishment because he was constipated. He was treated for third-degree burns on his bottom. The child also had other injuries and a cigarette burn on his left foot.

Rich was ordered to have no contact with her son and to receive parenting training.

Her boyfriend was charged last month with assault and a first-degree sex offense.

Anybody able to find the name of the boyfriend who has been charged in this case as well.

I tried to find an update on his condition, but could find nothing.

I’m happy to see that the charges on this monster were not increased to murder. It tells me that he was strong enough to pull through this.

This bitch needs to have her intestines pulled out slowly and shoved down her throat.

PLEASE let me be on her jury. It’s all I want for Christmas. I promise to be a good boy all year!

ROT IN HELL YOU FUCKING BITCH!!!!
You will never know the pain you have permanently inflicted on that poor child – YOUR child!!!!

I will never, CAN’T ever understand what kind of screwed up, piece of twisted crap, could do that to any child, let alone their own child.

I re-iterate:
ROT IN HELL YOU FUCKING BITCH!!!!

There I feel better, Thank you Demon

Childrens Services can be a joke. If anyone is a canidate to have their kids remove it is a person I know. She has 6 and 7 year old girls that smoke cigarettes. Not just tried them or snuck one here and there, they ARE smokers. Mom leaves them in the care of her 15 year old nephew and his wannabe thug friends overnights more often than not while she parties all night. Rather than get on her nephew for having these kids smoking and cursing she thinks the kids are old enough to make their own choices about smoking at 6 and 7. The kids have no respect or manners for anything or anyone because they’ve never been taught ANYTHING at home exept how to lie for mommy. The real issue is that they’ve had lice for 5 years, they don’t remember not having it, many other people friends and relatives have taken it upon themselves to clean their hair but mom won’t follow up, or clean their house and they will have it again within a week. I could go on and on the ways those poor kids are neglected, I would think the Lice for 5 years would be enough to warrant child neglect charges, but i guess not. In the past year CPS has been called for them 4 times that I know of, by heighbors and even by the apartment rental office because they started a fire in a bedroom because the girls were making toast in a toaster on their bed, and they caught them sneaking into the pool afterhours after they banned them from it because of the lice. All 4 times CPS came out, because there was food in the cupboards, which was just lucky timing for the mom, and no signs of physical abuse, all they do is give her a lice treatment kit and a packet of city sponsered activities for kids in the area to help keep them out of trouble. Ask her to please, at least take care of the Lice, and they leave.

I would think that if you could possibly get some of this behavior on video tape, it might help. Too often “parents” know when CPS is coming and get the worst things in order – till CPS leaves – then it’s right back to the same behavior. CPS can’t take kids without actually witnessing some form of abuse or having clear-cut proof that it’s occurred. It’s one thing that these children are smoking – it’s another to prove the mother is condoning it. Photos or video of them doing it in her presence could be helpful.

The lice thing makes me think of poor Rowan. Treated time and time again for head lice — but needing to be treated for a different kind — hence its constant re-occurrence.

Please don’t give up on helping those kids.

There are people that would love to have a child and can’t have any…

I have a friend who works for DSS and it seems they take kids from home they shouldn’t and leave them in homes where they are abused and should be removed. She has seen a child taken over things like a spider in the yard and a mother who left her child in the car to return a book to the library. (1 minute maybe)