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.

You May Also Like

‘Figured I would finish it off’: Man used bedside shotgun to murder his retired judge father, teacher mother in fight over sleeping pill

Insets, left to right: Susan Carnes and Alfred ‘Burt’ Carnes (Ramsey Funeral…

INSTA SNAPS LAVISH LIFESTYLE WITH NEW TROPHY WIFE AND BABY LEAD TO MURDER?

Dr. Hamid Mirshojae and his new wife have a 6-month-old daughter. He…