People v. Mattison

Mikoll, J. P.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Washington County (Hemmett, Jr., J.), rendered May 18, 1994, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of assault in the second degree.

On the afternoon of August 30, 1993, a hot day, members of a volunteer rescue squad arrived at the apartment of defendant, the mother of three young daughters, and found that the 22-month-old (hereinafter the child), had sustained scalding burns to areas of her buttocks, vulva, perineal area, right posterior thigh and calf, right foot and abdomen. The burns were of second and third degree.…