SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - A 22-year-old Sioux City man is accused of slamming his live-in girlfriend’s 3-year-old son into the corner of a piece of furniture.
Online court records say Markus Leon is charged with child endangerment causing serious injury and is being held in Woodbury County Jail. His attorney didn’t immediately return a call Tuesday from an Associated Press reporter seeking comment on the allegations.
Authorities say Leon was baby-sitting the boy and a 1-year-old child on April 22 and became angry when the boy’s noise kept waking up Leon, who was trying to sleep. Leon told officers that he lost his temper and slammed the boy into the furniture. The child later was diagnosed with a lacerated liver, a bruised spleen and a bruised kidney.
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