A 2-year-old suffers from second degree burns on his hands in Texas.

Police say it may be at the hands of his fathers girlfriend.

The childs father called 9-1-1 when he walked into his house to find his son crying and peeling skin from his hand.

The father had left his son with his 21-year-old girlfriend while he went to the store two blocks away.

The affidavit states that the girlfriend says the child burned himself.

She has been charged with injury to a child and is now in jail with a bond set at $50,000.

EMS said she held the 2-year-olds hangs under a hot faucet, which peaked its temperature at 155 degrees.