This is in response to the article Aug. 5 about the 3-year-old in Searsport who was scalded in a bathtub by her stepfather, who held her down in the 150-degree water while he shampooed her hair and held his hand over her mouth so she couldn’t scream.

The district attorney’s office and the guy’s defense attorney had agreed on a three-year sentence, even after the mother of the child found the child’s skin falling off when she arrived home.

Reading about the incident made me sick and reminded me of the child who was put in an oven in 1984 by the mother’s boyfriend in Auburn.

The judge in this new case said that the man should serve at least seven years for scalding the child, who will be scarred for life. That is just one plea bargaining case between the DA’s office and the guy’s lawyer that should never have happened.

Donald Lowe, Farmington