PARENTS SCALDED COUSIN TO DEATH, BOY TELLS JUDGE ON TAPE

With a new haircut and sneakers, the 8-year-old boy climbed up onto the large witness chair and described the night his cousin died. He told the judge how he peered through a fist-sized hole where the doorknob used to be and saw his 3 1/2 -year-old cousin with his father's filthy undershirt hanging off her shoulders. He saw his parents draw her bath. Clouds of vapor rose from the tub. Then, the boy said softly, he watched his parents submerge her in the scalding water.....