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Man forces child to burn fingers
Published 12:00 p.m., December 8, 2009
A Fergus Falls man is accused of forcing a child to touch a hot stove a day before he was sentenced for hitting a child with a clothes hanger.
Twenty-nine-year-old Adam Francis Doehring was sentenced last week to 30 days in jail for malicious punishment of a child after being charged with hitting a child with a clothes hanger in mid-April.
Now prosecutors are saying Doehring threatened to spank the child if the child did not touch a hot stove. The youngster suffered burns on two fingers.
According to a criminal complaint, a day before being sentenced for the hanger incident Doehring told a child to touch a hot stove — threatening spankings if the child did not comply. The incident left the child with large blisters on two fingers, the complaint states.
On Dec. 3 Doehring was charged with another count of malicious punishment of a child in connection with the stove incident as well as felony domestic assault.
He is in the Otter Tail County Detention Facility awaiting a Dec. 14 hearing.
In August Doehring was arrested and taken to detox for being threatening and abusive at an Erhard residence. He was charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure after dropping his pants and exposing himself in the presence of a 16-year-old.
In the summer of 2008 Doehring made local headlines after being arrested after his two-year-old child was found wandering alone in Athletic Park in Fergus Falls. When officers arrived at the scene they found the child on a slide dressed only in a dirty diaper. The complainant who reported the incident said the child had been in the park alone at least 20 minutes and had rode his trike across a street to get to the park.
Doehring was also originally charged with fourth degree assault of a police officer after allegedly becoming combative with police when they returned the child to Doehring’s residence. According to court records, Doehring became upset and struck an officer in the face and kicked him in the leg. When Doehring refused to calm down officers deployed a taser, arrested the man and booked him into the county jail.
Court records show Doehring has previous domestic assault convictions from October 2008 and February 2004.
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