A day care worker from a now closed Clermont center was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for scalding a 16-month-old child with hot water. Eddye Pittmon, 56, of Talmo, was convicted Jan. 15 of child cruelty in the first and second degrees, as well as battery. She received 20 years for first-degree child cruelty, with eight of those years to be served in confinement.Damon Gaddis, now 3, suffered third-degree burns and required multiple surgeries.
Day care worker sentenced to 8 years in prison for scalding toddler