"Frustrated" dad faces 28 yearsin prison for abusing infant son (Columbus, Wisconsin)

Same sh**, different day. "Frustrated" dad JOSHUA D. BOOTH just couldn't handle changing the clothes of his infant son. Just too much, ya know? So he broke the baby's legs and ankles while "pulling" on them. Then a day or so later, he shook the crying baby hard enough to cause brain damage. Not one word on the mom, not one word on why this poor baby was in this @$$hole's care. Typical.

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT.

http://www.wiscnews.com/portagedailyregister/news/article_7992bb08-448c-11e0-95f1-001cc4c03286.html

Shaken baby’s brain swelled
By Shannon Green, Daily Register Posted: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 11:16 pm

A Columbus man faces 28 years in prison after authorities said he shook his infant son so hard that it caused his brain to swell and used so much force in changing the boy's clothing that it resulted in multiple leg fractures.

Joshua D. Booth, 24, of Columbus, was ordered held on $500 cash bail at a hearing Tuesday in Columbia County Circuit Court.

Columbus police responded to a report of a child turning blue at to a Campbell Street home at 4:27 p.m. Feb. 23 to find a 4 1/2-month-old child having difficulty breathing.

Booth, father of the child, told police that the boy began having breathing difficulty and turning blue during a diaper change after he began to cry when in a swing, according to a criminal complaint.

Booth said "something happened" and he became frustrated when the child began crying profusely in the swing; Booth said he shook the boy for about 30 seconds while the boy's head bobbed back and forth, the complaint stated.

The boy's crying increased, but after 30 seconds to a minute, the boy went limp and began gasping for air and would not wake up, according to the complaint.

Police said Booth admitted to pulling on the boy's ankles harder than he should when changing the boy's clothing.

Barbara Knox, a child abuse pediatrician at American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, said the boy suffered bleeding on both sides of his skull, swelling of the brain, retinal hemorrhaging of both eyes, reduced oxygen or blood flow to the brain, fractures near each of his ankles and two separate fractures in the bones of each leg, according to the criminal complaint.

The bone fractures occurred 24 to 36 hours before the incident Feb. 23, the complaint stated.

Booth faces up to 28 years in prison as an initial penalty on a felony charges of physical abuse of a child, intentionally causing great bodily harm, and physical abuse of a child, intentionally causing bodily harm.

Booth is scheduled for a pretrial conference March 18 and a court hearing March 30.