BANGOR — A New Hampshire man accused of placing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in a clothing dryer at her Bangor home and turning on the machine in August pleaded guilty Tuesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to one count of aggravated assault.

Adam Morton, 28, of Berlin, N.H., is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 2, according to MIchael Roberts, deputy district attorney for Penobscot County.

In exchange for Morton’s plea, the prosecutor will recommend Morton be sentenced to eight years in prison with all but two years suspended and three years of probation.

The maximum sentence for the Class B crime is 10 years and a fine of up to $20,000.

Morton, who was dating the boy’s mother, was arrested Aug. 28 in New Hampshire and extradited to Maine. He was released from the Penobscot County Jail on Sept. 19, according to a previously published report.

He remains free on $2,500 cash bail. Conditions include no contact with the victim or children under the age of 6.

By pleading guilty, Morton admitted that on Aug. 2 he put the boy in the dryer and turned it on. Morton told Bangor police Detective Tim Shaw that the dryer made just one revolution before Morton removed him from the dryer.

The boy suffered second-degree burns to his back and arms with a distinct pattern that matched the drum of the dryer, had blisters on his feet, bruises all over his body and cuts that matched bolts on the inside of the appliance, according to the probable cause affidavit Shaw filed at the Penobscot Judicial Center.

Police seized the dryer and through testing determined it could reach temperatures of up to 180 degrees in just three minutes.