Dad gets probation for beating up 4-month-old daughter (Waterloo, Iowa)

Dad is identified as BRANDON MCCOWEN. He was home alone with the baby at the time of the assault. No mention of a mother.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130108/NEWS/130109604/1016

Published Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 3:20 am / Updated at 3:22 am

Father, 24, gets probation for injuries to baby
Omaha World-Herald

WATERLOO, Iowa — A 24-year-old Iowa man has been given two to five years of probation and a suspended prison term for injuring his 4-month-old daughter.

Brandon McCowen had pleaded guilty after prosecutors lowered the charge to child endangerment causing bodily injury.

The girl was hospitalized on June 6, 2010, after she had trouble breathing. She was flown to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, where doctors concluded that she had head and eye injuries too numerous to count.

McCowen told authorities that he was home alone with his daughter when she fell out of his arms and onto a bed. Court records say doctors told investigators the injuries appeared to have resulted from “nonaccidental trauma.”

McCowen’s parental rights have been terminated.