Dad charged with assault of 4-month-old daughter (Lake Saint Louis, Missouri)

Standard narrative. Dad ROBERT JAMISON was not married to the mother, nor did he cohabitate with her. He was babysitting. Then like too many of these macho dudes, he got pissed when the baby cried. So he broke her leg and bashed her in the side.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/stcharles/article_027575b2-0023-11e1-8a47-001a4bcf6878.html

Lake Saint Louis man charged with assault, child abuse
BY SHANE ANTHONY • santhony@post-dispatch.com > 636-255-7209
STLtoday.com | Posted: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:01 pm


LAKE SAINT LOUIS • Police said the father of a 4-month-old girl broke her right leg and struck her in the side.

Robert Jamison III, 22, of the 2000 block of Gascony Parc Drive in Lake Saint Louis, was charged Tuesday with child abuse and first-degree assault, both felonies.

Police said Jamison does not live with the girl's mother and was watching her last Thursday when she was injured. They said he told them he was angry when her cries awakened him.

Jamison found the girl lodged between a couch and a wall, and he pulled her hard enough to cause a spiral fracture in her right femur, police said. He heard a popping noise as he pulled on her, they said. They said he knew her injury would get him in trouble, which made him angry. He then hit her in her right side near her stomach, they said.

Doctors at Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center discovered the injuries. Police said the girl's wounds are expected to heal.