Associated PressFebruary 14, 2021 GMT
PORTLAND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana man on the run for years to avoid criminal proceedings has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for forcing a 5-year-old boy’s hands into scalding water.
Muncie’s Star Press reports that Marcus A. Ternet, 53, was sentenced Friday by a Jay County judge. Jurors convicted him in December for battery resulting in serious bodily injury to a person under 14 years old. He faced a maximum 20-year term.
The incident occurred in a trailer in Portland’s Oakwood Mobile Home Park in 2011. The boy was treated for burns at Jay County Hospital and Fort Wayne’s St. Joseph Hospital.