Couple Charged in Scalding 4 yr old?

Scott County Circuit Judge John Kilgore set a bond of $35,000 each Thursday for a couple accused in a Dec. 8, 2004, incident in Dungannon that inflicted second- and third-degree burns on a 4-year-old girl.
During Thursday's arraignment and bond hearing for Dorinda May Gibson, 21, and her boyfriend, Dennis Delaney Bentley, Kilgore ordered the couple cannot be around children unsupervised. Kilgore also set a motions day for Aug. 29 and jury trial dates for Gibson to begin on Sept. 23 and for Bentley on Sept. 30.
Gibson is accused of tossing a pan of scalding water on her 4-year-old daughter late last year at a residence in Dungannon. The couple are accused of fracturing the girl's ankle when they attempted to give the child a cold bath to soothe the burns, then leaving her unattended in a room for several hours until another individual urged them to take the girl for medical treatment.
On May 2, a Scott County grand jury indicted the couple on one count each of felony child abuse, neglect, malicious wounding, and conspiracy. The child reportedly did not receive her initial medical treatment at Norton Community Hospital until 36 hours after she was injured. The girl was then taken to the University of North Carolina Burn Center in Chapel Hill. She is in state custody and reported to be recovering from her injuries.
On Wednesday, Gibson's mother, Dorinda Mullins of Duffield, said her granddaughter's right arm, not an ankle, was fractured. Although Gibson had her mother's address listed on initial court documentation, and Bentley an address in Pound, Mullins said the couple have been living in Coeburn since February.
The couple were taken into custody by Wise County deputies on Wednesday and transported to Scott County. An arraignment scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday had to be postponed to 1 p.m. Thursday because the judge was unavailable.
Scott County Commonwealth's Attorney Marcus McClung said Thursday evening that Bentley will remain in the Scott County Jail until he posts bond. Gibson spent Wednesday night in the Lee County Jail because Scott County has no facilities for female inmates.
McClung said Gibson's attorney is Scott County's Janet Metz, and Bentley is represented by Stephanie Pease of Bristol, Tenn.

What is wrong with people? Seems like lately there has been a lot of abuse to children.
Even the one where the man killed his daughter and her friend. The two second graders beaten an stabbed, because she was said to not be listening to her dad, her what all of 7 or 9 yrs old and her friend, so he beats them and stabs them.
You see people who want children who would be good parents. Then you see people who have kids, but do crap like this?
I don't understand anymore.
A precious child just 4 yrs old done this way. And 36 hrs to get their first real treatment.
Any child done this way.
Geesh.

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My personal feeling is, let the punishment fit the crime. If you cut somebodys head off, be prepared to lose yours also.