MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A southwest Oregon man is facing trial on charges that he assaulted a baby left in his care and failed to seek medical care for the child hours after the attack.
The Mail Tribune reports (https://bit.ly/2oGJQwS) Petey Ray Henthorne of Medford is charged with assault and criminal mistreatment. His trial started Tuesday and is expected to last three days in Jackson County Circuit Court.
Prosecutors say the child, who is now 3, has cerebral palsy, which limits his ability to move on one side. The baby also suffered bleeding in his brain, broken bones and bruising in the March 2015 attack.
Henthorne had told his girlfriend the baby fell off a bed and landed on his head.
But a Medford officer testified the child’s injuries were extensive and not consistent with a fall.
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Information from: Mail Tribune, https://www.mailtribune.com/
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