Another case where a short-tempered father got visitation with a baby. As soon as he gets that baby back to his house, Daddy gets irked from the crying. So he bashes him in the head, shakes him, and throws him twice. The baby died from blunt force trauma to the head. Now FRANCISCO MARQUEZ-LUNA may be facing 1st-degree reckless homicide charges.
So did Daddy have a history of domestic violence--and get visitation anyway? Wonder if there's some brilliant unnamed judge and passel of shrinks behind this one.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/122970703.html
Father charged in death of 10-month-old son
By Gitte Laasby of the Journal Sentinel
June 1, 2011 3:18 p.m.
A 10-month-old boy died on Memorial Day weekend after his father hit him with a video game controller, according to a criminal complaint released Wednesday.
According to the complaint:
The father, Francisco Marquez-Luna, 25, picked up his son, Derek Marquez, around 7 p.m. Saturday. When the two reached the father's home in the 1200 block of S. 21st St., the baby began crying.
The father first told a Milwaukee police detective that he threw the boy into the air to calm him down and dropped him, and the toddler hit his head on a coffee table. Marquez-Luna later changed his explanation.
"He stated that what he did was throw a Wii controller at him and hit him in the head," the criminal complaint states. "Derek Marquez began crying. He picked him up and tried to calm him down but he could not. He then began shaking him five to 10 seconds and then threw him against the couch two times. The first time he threw the child against the couch he hit the seat area of the couch. The second time he threw Derek against the couch, Derek hit the part of the couch where one might rest their head."
Assistant medical examiner Wieslawa Tlomak determined that the baby died of blunt force trauma to the head.
Marquez-Luna faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted of first-degree reckless homicide.