Texas robbers scald boy in bathtub to make his dad hand over valuables
Three masked men burst into a Houston-area home early Monday and held a boy under hot water to get the child's father to tell them where the valuables were.
The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office said that it was alerted to the home invasion around 3 a.m. Two adults and two children were sleeping at the home in Richmond, about 20 miles west of Houston, KHOU-TV reported.
The father told authorities that the three masked men broke down the front door and attacked him.
The robbers then put held a 7-year-old boy in the bathtub and ran hot water on him in an attempt to make the father reveal where cash and other items were in the home. They ransacked the home for almost an hour, Sheriff Troy Nehls said.
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