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Day care owner, staff members indicted in 2014 toddler burn case
16-month-old injured by scalding water in June incident
Eddye-Pittmon
Eddye Pittmon
The owner, site director and an employee at a former Clermont day care were indicted Thursday on charges connected to a toddler who was burned on the premises last summer. Authorities believe Discovering Basics’ owner Minnie Sue Dupree, 66, site director Tara Miller, 40, both of Gainesville and Eddye Pittmon, 55, of Talmo, were involved in burns sustained by Damon Gaddis, who was 16 months old at the time. Hall County Sheriff’s Office investigator Angelyn Miller testified at a probable cause hearing that the alleged burn occurred around 10 a.m. June 13.