Dad charged with killing 6-week-old baby (Atascadero, California)

Dad KELLY DWANYE LAVIGNE has been charged with 2nd-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death in the shaking death of his 6-week-old son.

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Monday, Aug. 31, 2009
Charges filed against Atascadero man accused of killing his baby

An Atascadero man accused of shaking his six-week old son to death will have to answer to charges of second degree murder and child abuse resulting in death, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Kelly Dwayne Lavigne’s arraignment will be Sept. 17.

Atascadero police and firefighters responded to his home on Traffic Way on March 16 after the infant stopped breathing, the Atascadero Police Department reported.

Kelly Dwayne Lavigne, 25, was arrested Friday suspicion of inflicting corporal injury to a child, likely to cause great bodily injury or death, and inflicting bodily harm during the commission of a crime in which the child is less than 5 years old. His infant son remains in critical condition at Children's Hospital Central California in Madera, near Fresno.

Pediatric specialists determined the baby was suffering from injuries caused by "shaken baby syndrome," the result of being shaken violently, according to police.

--Nick Wilson