"John Doe" - 5 yo - Lynchburg MI

A Lynchburg mother has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for neglecting her severely burned son for nearly a week.
The incident sparked a manhunt after the 5-year-old blamed his mother’s former boyfriend of bending him backward over a tub of scalding water.
Faith Loftin, 30, pleaded guilty in June to felony child neglect. Photos of the boy’s back submitted as evidence showed his burned skin peeling away “like paper,“ senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Janell Johnson said.
Six days after the boy was burned, a worker at an after-school program noticed the boy’s absence and came by the house to check on him, according to testimony in an earlier hearing.
After seeing the burns, the woman called authorities.
Johnson said the boy spent the next week in hospitals, where he was treated for second-degree burns to as much as 19 percent of his body.
Loftin’s lawyer, Tara Wyant, said Loftin has been diagnosed with schizophrenia as well as bipolar and personality disorders. Loftin was off her medication when the boy was burned, Wyant said.