A November sentencing date has been set for an Athens mother who pleaded guilty in July to scalding her two children in a bathtub.

Amanda Marie Reyer, 26, of 300 Bullington Road, is scheduled to be sentenced at 9 a.m. Nov. 13 before Limestone County Circuit Judge Robert Baker. She is facing a sentence of 10 to 99 years or life in prison.

Limestone County District Attorney Brian Jones has said Reyer intentionally immersed her two children — a 2-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy — in a scalding tub of water in 2015.

On July 9, Reyer entered a blind plea — a plea without a guaranteed sentence — to two counts of aggravated child abuse, both Class A felonies. In exchange for her plea, the District Attorney’s Office agreed to dismiss four of the six charges against her, including two counts of attempted murder and the two counts of first-degree domestic violence.

She will remain in the Limestone County Jail until sentencing.

The case

Investigators say Reyer and her former boyfriend, Derrick Lynn Defoe, 33, of 19235 Easter Ferry Road, Athens, were at their former home on Tillman Mill Road when the children were intentionally scalded in the bathtub on June 13.

On the evening of June 14, Reyer took the girl to Athens-Limestone Hospital, claiming she fell into a hot tub. The hospital visit prompted an investigation by the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office, which determined the boy had also suffered burns.

Jones has said the toddler was placed in water up to her neck and suffered second- and third-degree burns over 80 percent of her body. She spent months in critical condition in the burn unit at Shriner’s Hospitals for Children in Cincinnati before being released.

Jones said the boy was standing in the tub and suffered second- and third-degree burns over 30 percent of his body.

Defoe is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 6.