State College Man Accused of Branding 8 Year Old Child

A Pennsylvania man is headed behind bars for literally ‘branding’ a child. 28 year old Edward Walters of State College, plead guilty to simple assault and endangering the welfare of a child, after state police say he burned a shape that looked like the number 8 onto the young child’s arm. Walters will now spend at least 6 and possibly as much as 23.5 months in the Centre County Correctional Facility, followed by one more year of probation following his sentencing in the case, in which the child told an interviewer from the children’s advocacy center about Walters using a “grey-colored metal thing” to place two circles on his arm and that it felt like a burn.