Man sentenced for forcing boy’s hands into scalding water

<p>PORTLAND, Ind. &mdash; 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.</p>
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<a href="https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/crime/2021/02/13/jay-county-man-gets-13-years-scalding-5-year-old-boy/6746050002/">Muncie’s Star Press reports</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Ternet’s trial was set to begin in 2012, but he never showed. A judge then issued a warrant for his arrest. He was arrested and jailed in 2019.</p>