Dad who dunked 4-year-old in scalding hot water as punishment for bathroom accident learns his fate

Wilbur Fields sentenced in death of his daughter

Background: Prisma Health Children’s Hospital in Columbia, S.C., where Hope Fields died in 2024 (Google Maps). Inset (left): Wilbur Fields (Richland County Detention Center). Inset (right): Hope Fields (Richland County Sheriff’s Office).

A South Carolina man will spend decades in prison for the fatal punishment he inflicted on his 4-year-old daughter.

Wilbur Fields, 35, was sentenced to 50 years in prison on March 3, just over a year after he was charged with the murder of his 4-year-old daughter Hope Fields. In February 2024, Fields and his wife Fifi Hill-Fields, 32, were both arrested after bringing their daughter to the hospital with first-degree burns. Hope was reportedly unresponsive when she arrived and spent two days on life support before succumbing to her injuries, according to reporting at the time by WJBF, a local ABC affiliate.

Fields admitted to investigators that he had punished Hope for having an accident in her pants by submerging her in scalding hot water.

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