Scots woman who deliberately scalded toddler with hot iron dodges jail

dailyrecord.co.uk:

toddler after deliberately scalding him with a hot iron has been allowed to walk free from court. Coral Chalmers, 23, was found guilty by a jury at Dundee Sheriff Court of attacking and injuring the 23-month-old boy with an iron.

Chalmers tried to claim the youngster had inflicted the burns on himself by backing into a cooker which was still hot after being switched off 45 minutes earlier.But the jury rejected her story after hearing from medical experts that the distinctive shape of the burn on the boy's skin matched the heat plate of an iron.The jury took little over an hour to find Chalmers guilty of using the iron to assault the boy at a house in the city between 28 and 30 November 2019.