Dad on trial for aggravated assault of 3 1/2-month-old daughter (St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada)

Dad COLIN JAMES MATCHIM is currently on trial for aggravated assault against his 3 1/2-month-old daughter. The baby continues to have significant brain damage. No mention of Mom.

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http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2011-03-17/article-2340073/Child-had-significant-brain-damage-pediatric-neurologist-tells-court/1

Child had significant brain damage, pediatric neurologist tells court
Rosie Gillingham/The Telegram
Published on March 17, 2011
Published on March 17, 2011

A pediatric neurologist testified today that when 3 1/2 month-old August Matchim was brought to the Janeway Childrens' Hospital in March 2009, she had significant brain damage.

Dr. Muhammad Farooq Alam was on the stand for most of the morning in the trial of Colin James Matchim at Newfoundland Supreme Court in St. John’s.

Matchim, August's father, is accused of shaking the baby in March 2009. He faces one count of aggravated assault.

He admitted to police he had shaken the baby when she was crying in an effort to try and get her to stop holding her breath. But he later said it was a false confession.

Alam testified that August had seizures when she was brought to hospital on March 17, 2009. He examined her from various tests, found she had impaired brain function and that there was no activity on the left side of her brain, which impeded movement on the right side of her body.

He continued to assess August until she was discharged from the hospital when she was 13 months old. There was no change, he said, in the right side activity of the brain and that the child’s development was far behind what it should have been for someone her age.

A second neurologist will take the stand this afternoon.