Terribly burned boy, 3, returns home three months after his father 'abducted him and carried out act of unspeakable evil to get back at his ex'

A lad is backmost location aft his father kidnapped him successful May and acceptable a car connected occurrence with the kid inactive inside.

Bennett Dornellas, 3, suffered third-degree burns connected 90 percent of his body, but was inactive pictured smiling successful the days earlier his merchandise Monday.

His father, 32-year-old Joshua Bennett Dornellas, is successful custody, after starring deputies connected a pursuit that ended with the car occurrence successful Georgia, aft opening successful South Carolina.

It began with the convulsive battle of Bennett and his parent astatine the family's location successful Anderson County, cops said - leading Dornellas to kidnap the lad and thrust him down I-85 crossed authorities lines.

Georgia State constabulary soon became involved, and Dornellas yet acceptable the motortruck helium was driving ablaze earlier jumping retired astatine speeds of 55 mph. Bennett was near wrong to burn, but afterwards, deputies were capable to prevention his life. 

Four months later, he's backmost home, and his dada is being held without bond.

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'Today was amazing! Lots of tears shed, blessed tears,' Bennett’s mother, Chelsea Oliver, said successful a station to societal media successful solemnisation of Bennett's release.

'Thank you all,' the pistillate who precocious divided from the fishy with whom she shares respective different kids continued.

'We are everlastingly grateful for you all! We volition miss each our astonishing nurses and doctors but we volition beryllium going backmost often for checkups and aboriginal surgeries.'

In a follow-up, Oliver wrote: 'Bennett is dependable dormant and truthful blessed to beryllium home!! 

'He laughed truthful overmuch astatine uncle Jeremy and ridge playing with [W]oodys hat,' she added, referencing Bennet's trusty Toy Story fig that's been by his broadside passim his enactment successful the ICU.

'So blessed each my babies are nether 1 extortion and we get to walk prime clip together.'

The station radiated positivity, contempt the terrible scarring and burns inactive disposable connected the boy's face.

Photos showed him reunited with Oliver retired beforehand of the household residence, portion different showed him flashing a heartwarming grin erstwhile inside.

Similar greens were recorded by Oliver during her son's four-month stay at the pain halfway successful Augusta wherever helium recovered, aft his begetter allegedly kidnapped him and doused him with gasoline earlier mounting him alight.

First fleeing from the location wherever Bennet lives with his mother, Dornellas snatched the boy, drove him distant successful his truck, and threatened to termination the kid erstwhile officers began to adjacent in, Georgia State Patrol officials said.

Troopers, astatine that point, attempted a box-in maneuver to halt the truck's progress, but were yet unsuccessful.  

The Georgia bureau stated that's erstwhile the fishy - who has a past of unit that caused a divided with his spouse - intentionally acceptable his car connected occurrence with the kid inactive inside.

He jumped retired of the driver's model portion traveling 55 mph, leaving the car to clang into an embankment afloat engulfed successful flames adjacent mile marker 166, cops said.

Officers were capable to rapidly retrieve the lad from the vehicle, but not earlier helium was severely burned crossed astir his full body.

Medical professionals took implicit the rest, hooking him up to a ventilator and carrying retired a bid of surgeries to adjacent up each of his skin.

They were yet successful, though adjacent his aft his merchandise past week, helium volition inactive person to acquisition respective much procedures during instrumentality visits to Augusta arsenic helium continues to recover. 

As for his father, helium had a tribunal quality connected September 9, wherever helium was denied enslaved for a 3rd time.

He remains successful custody amid an probe being handled by the Georgia State Patrol, after the Anderson County Sheriff already said Dornellas was arrested astatine the household location successful Belton connected April 21 for leaving Bennet and 4 different children, each nether the property of 11, unsocial astatine home. 

One of those children, a toddler, was aboriginal recovered wandering successful the street, cops said.

A  fewer days late, constabulary charged him with Domestic Violence 2nd Degree aft helium assaulted the child’s mother, prompting her to instrumentality an bid of extortion against Dornellas.

This paved the mode for the incidental connected May 8, which near Bennett with '3rd-degree burns passim 90% of his small body," the household said successful an online fundraiser that has since raised much than $80,000.

Dornellas - who drove a golden F-150 - is facing a agelong database of transgression charges, including transgression effort to perpetrate murder, kidnapping, aggravated battery, cruelty to children successful the archetypal degree, arson successful the archetypal degree, aggravated battle connected a constabulary officer, and endangering a kid portion driving nether the influence.

He faces a big of centrifugal conveyance and postulation offenses arsenic well, arsenic good arsenic much than 20 years successful situation if recovered guilty. A proceedings day was not instantly set.