"Frustrated" dad found guilty of 2nd-degree child abuse for head injury to 6-week-old son (Grand Haven, Michigan)

The most gawd-awful daddy coddling ever. Since when is ignorance an excuse? And are you going to tell me that "frustrated" dad JUSTIN MCINTYRE was too stupid to know that if you "lower" (slam?) a baby down on the bed and hit the baby's head on a hard object in the process, that the baby could be hurt? PULLLEEZE. And he gets his charges dropped to 2nd-degree abuse because he's allegedly stupid?

This would never fly with a mother unless MAYBE she was certifiably developmentally disabled. And then the authorities would have stripped her of custody long ago. 

Earlier accounts have stated that this took place when Mom was at work. This is what happens when we do not have paid maternity leaves. Short-tempered idiot males take over the infant care, and with predicable results (fathers dominate shaken baby/abusive head trauma statistics, followed by boyfriends). 

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/12/judge_finds_spring_lake_father.html

Judge finds Spring Lake father guilty of second-degree child abuse for baby's brain injury

By Heidi Fenton on December 18, 2012 at 4:30 PM, updated December 18, 2012 at 4:57 PM

GRAND HAVEN, MI -- An Ottawa County judge on Tuesday found a 23-year-old man guilty of second-degree child abuse for injuring his infant son in what police say was a violent shaking.

Judge Edward Post on Dec. 18, decided that Justin McIntyre should be convicted of the second-degree charge, instead of first-degree child abuse, after hearing testimony in a bench trial.

McIntyre was watching Bentley McIntyre, his 6-week-old son, in late August at the Spring Lake home of his girlfriend's parents when the injury happened.

McIntyre told police the boy's head hit a laptop computer as he lowered him onto a bed. He acknowledged he was frustrated at the time.

Post determined that not enough evidence existed to show that McIntyre knew that, by shaking Bentley, the injuries would occur.

Grand Haven area attorney Joe Legatz, who represented McIntyre, believed the judge came to the right decision.

"Justin is still suffering from what he did," he said. "He kicks himself every day for what he did."

The baby is still recovering.