Friday, September 23, 2011

Babysitting dad arrested after child hospitalized with severe head injuries (Sebring, Florida)

Yet another case of fashionable role reversal--Mom forced to work, and Daddy being "stay-at-home" or at least serving as babysitter. Or in reality, being an abusive, neglectful deadbeat....

This time the dad is DOMINIC DIAZ-ASCANI.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/211832/8/Child-hospitalized-with-severe-head-trauma-father-arrested

Sebring father arrested after child hospitalized with severe head trauma
4:15 PM, Sep 22, 2011
Written by Kristin Weber

Sebring, FL -- A Sebring father is in Highlands County Jail facing abuse charges after his child was hospitalized with severe head injuries on September 9.

According to the report, the child, at home with 20-year-old Dominic Diaz-Ascani at the time, was injured earlier in the evening but wasn't taken to the hospital until the mother came home from work later that night.

The child was taken to Tampa General and will live, but with severe trauma. Doctors reported to detectives that the child had prior signs of abuse in addition to the injuries sustained on the ninth.

Detectives arrested Diaz-Ascani, and is charged with Cruelty toward a Child, Abuse Causing Great Bodily Harm, Disability and Child Neglect Causing Great Harm.

He is currently being held on $200,000 bond.