Dastardly Dads: Dad charged with child endangerment for fracturing newborn daughter's skull (Council Bluffs, Iowa)

Contrary to fathers' rights propaganda, father perpetrators (along with stepdads and caretaker boyfrends) dominate the most vicious crimes against children: sexual assault, abusive head trauma, murder-suicides, crimes involving gun violence, and other similar forms of physically violent/fatal child abuse. And as more dads are providing child care (either because mom is working and can't find other care, or because dads are increasingly getting unsupervised visitation/custody through the family courts), more dads are are being found guilty of basic child abuse and neglect as well.

10/25/15 -Because of severe time constraints, we are no longer able to do regular updates at Dastardly Dads. We will occasionally post articles on general studies on child abuse/domestic violence, news pieces involving abusive fathers in custody/visitation situations. We wil also be updating the Killer Dads and Custody lists, while looking for a better, more accessible platform for the data.

7/11/16 - We started this blog on June 24, 2009--just over seven years. And like all good things, it's time to bring this project to a close. It has served its purpose. We have close to 10,500 postings regarding fathers and child abuse, with hundred of those cases being enabled by the family courts, social services, and others in authority. The documentation is clear. It is now time to stop documenting and put that energy into changing the situation that puts thousands of mothers and children at risk every day.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Dad charged with child endangerment for fracturing newborn daughter's skull (Council Bluffs, Iowa)

Read this, and you'll see how misleading the the headline and introductory paragraph is. This baby wasn't just "slapped." Her SKULL WAS FRACTURED because she "wouldn't stop crying." And Dad is arrested under "endangerment"? Why not assault or some variation thereof?

http://www.ketv.com/mostpopular/22825562/detail.html

Father Charged With Slapping Newborn
POSTED: 3:34 pm CST March 12, 2010
UPDATED: 5:19 pm CST March 12, 2010

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- Investigators said a Council Bluffs man slapped his newborn baby because she wouldn't stop crying.

The 6-week-old baby suffered a skull fracture. Her dad, Fernando Antunez-Torres, has been jailed on charges of felony child endangerment and willful injury.

The child was taken to a Council Bluffs emergency room Thursday with swelling to her head and bleeding in her eye.

The baby is doing well Friday and is expected to make a complete recovery, police said. The father seems remorseful, according to police.

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Dad charged with child endangerment for fracturing newborn daughter's skull (Council Bluffs, Iowa)