Provo • A Santaquin man is accused of breaking the arm of his 1-month-old son.
According to court documents, the Division of Child and Family Services notified Santaquin police Saturday that the infant had been brought to Mountain View Hospital in Payson with a broken arm. An emergency room doctor told police the break appeared to be the result of someone pulling on the arm.
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The child’s mother told police she didn’t know how the child’s arm was broken, but the doctor heard the child’s father say he had been drinking the night before and had gotten up at 3:30 a.m. to feed the baby.
The mother said she went to bed at 11 p.m. the night before, and that her husband and the baby were still up. When she went to feed the baby in the morning, he was crying as if in pain, and was sensitive to having his arm touched. Later, she noticed the arm was swollen, and took him for medical help.
The father later told police that after having "a couple shots of rum," he had picked up the baby by both arms, fed him and put him in a playpen where he went to sleep. He said he then drank some more alcohol, fed the baby again and put him in their bed.
The father is charged with third-degree felony aggravated child abuse, and public intoxication, a class C misdemeanor. The officer who interviewed the father reported smelling alcohol on the suspect’s breath.
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