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GoLocalProv | News | Jury Convicts RI Man for Abusing 4-Month-Old Son
Thursday, January 12, 2023
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The Rhode Island Legal professional Normal’s workplace introduced Thursday {that a} Johnston man has been discovered responsible in Windfall County Superior Courtroom of bodily abusing his four-month-old son in 2017.
On Wednesday, following the conclusion of a five-day jury trial earlier than Superior Courtroom Justice Daniel A. Procaccini, the jury discovered Jean Diaz De La Rosa (age 27) responsible of two counts of first-degree baby abuse.
The defendant will probably be sentenced at a later date in Windfall Superior Courtroom.
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“This Workplace prosecutes hundreds of instances yearly, and but there are some that also depart one looking for phrases. We discuss typically about defending our state’s most weak residents. Are there any extra weak than a four-month-old baby? A toddler who ought to have been liked, and cared for, particularly by his mum or dad. But this baby was abused by that mum or dad, bodily, severely, repeatedly. Justice has arrived yesterday, and deservedly so,” stated Legal professional Normal Neronha. “I’m enormously grateful to the jury for its responsible verdict and stay up for sentencing on this case. The Hasbro Kids’s Hospital employees, the Division of Kids, Youth, and Households and the Johnston Police Division all did positive work right here, and I’m grateful to them as effectively.”
At trial, the State proved past an inexpensive doubt that in February 2017, the defendant bodily abused his four-month-old son, inflicting a number of severe accidents.
On February 13, 2017, members of the Johnston Police Division responded to a report of suspected baby abuse following an analysis of the defendant’s son at Hasbro Kids’s Hospital. Following their analysis, medical personnel on the hospital decided that the defendant’s four-month-old son suffered from seven fractures in each of his legs together with a major fracture to the kid’s left hip and proper tibia, and three extra fractures in his shoulders.
Docs on the Aubin Little one Safety Heart at Hasbro discovered that the ten fractures had been indicative of kid abuse and that two or extra traumatic incidents occurred.
On the time, hospital employees additionally alerted the Rhode Island Division of Kids, Youth, and Households (DCYF) of suspected baby abuse. Subsequently, the toddler was positioned into DCYF care.
“Circumstances involving the bodily abuse of kids are a few of the most heartbreaking that the women and men of the Johnston Police Division examine,” stated Johnston Police Chief Mark Vieira. “Our ideas are with the sufferer and his household presently, and hope that this verdict can convey a way of justice to them, following an extremely traumatic expertise.”
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