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Is your infant suffering from a bad fever? Don’t take Derrick Hardy’s advice of placing the feverish child in the freezer. Mr. Hardy, unfortunately babies aren’t slabs of meat meant to be placed in the freezer. Where the hell is the common sense here?!

A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend’s feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newspaper reported on Friday.

Derrick Hardy faces charges of criminal negligence and assaulting the infant, who was rescued when her mother came home, the Charlottetown Guardian said.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said the mother found the girl crammed into the freezer alongside ice cubes and hamburger meat. Hardy said he had left the door ajar but the mother said it had been closed when she returned.

He told a court in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island on Thursday the child had only been in the freezer for about 40 seconds.

Hardy, 21, who admitted to police that he had no real parenting skills to deal with a sick child, said he had noticed the girl was very hot and put a cool cloth on her face, but this had no effect.

Poor child. Doctors treated the infant for first and second degree burns to the head and torso. [via] I’m afraid what this kid might have done if the infant was too cold. Would he have thrown her in the oven?