Scott McMillan was only three years old when he succumbed to the systematic abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother and her live-in boyfriend in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
District Attorney Tom Hogan’s voice choked with emotion as he described the torture Scott sustained. WPVI-TV reports:
“Over a three day period … he was systematically tortured and beaten to death. He was punched in the face and in the stomach. He was scourged with a homemade whip. He was lashed with a metal rod. He was tied to a chair and beaten. He was tied upside down by his feet and beaten. His head was smashed through a wall.”...