Beau Holder pleaded guilty in June to puting his 2-year-old son in scalding hot bath water in 2011.
Wide angle view from the bench in a courtroom in the Mercer County Criminal Courthouse in Trenton in a January 2013 file photo. To purchase this and other photos, visit http://TimesofTrenton.zenfolio.com TRENTON — A Trenton man who put his 2-year-old son in a scalding hot tub of bathwater was sentenced to six years in prison today.
Beau Holder, 29, was watching his son Selah Brown on Father’s Day 2011 when he placed the boy in the bath, causing second- and third-degree burns over 65 percent of his body.
Holder’s attorney Antonio Martinez called the injuries that Brown received “utterly horrible,” but said his client did not mean to hurt his son.
“This was not an intentional act by any means,” Martinez said in court today.
Martinez said that since the incident Holder has wanted to reach out to his son’s mother Dedra Brown and her family, but Martinez has cautioned him not to approach them.
Dedra Brown wants Holder to have nothing to do with their son’s life going forward, Martinez said.
Before Superior Court Judge Thomas Sumners issued the sentence, he gave Holder an opportunity to speak.
“To Miss Brown, to the Brown family, to my son: I am sorry,” Holder said.
Sumners followed the terms of a plea deal and sentenced Holder to six years for charges of endangering the welfare of a child.
Contact Brendan McGrath at (609) 989-5731 or at bmcgrath@njtimes.com
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