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Utah man, 22, arrested for severely thrashing one-year-old son out of frustration over his incessant crying

Eliseo Estrada Jr has been charged with child abuse, intentional infliction of serious physical injury, which is a second-degree felony
PUBLISHED FEB 19, 2020
Eliseo Estrada Jr. (Weber County Sheriff's Office)
Eliseo Estrada Jr. (Weber County Sheriff's Office)

OGDEN, UTAH: A man from Utah has been arrested and charged after police said he severely beat his one-year-old son and left him hospitalized in a critical condition.

Eliseo Estrada Jr., 22, first came to the attention of authorities on February 15 after the infant's mother called 911 to report that the young boy had been injured, according to the Gephardt Daily.

When first responders arrived at the scene, they found the boy bruised and unconscious and rushed him to Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City for treatment. He was later diagnosed with brain bleeding.

Investigators said the boy's "face and head are covered in new bruising, old bruising and stages of bruising in between" and that he had "open bleeding injuries to the head," but that the mother insisted the injuries were "self-inflicted."

She reportedly claimed that the boy was born prematurely and suffered from a diagnosed mental condition that caused him to "slam his own head against a wall or the side of the crib."

She said she had been feeding another child at around 3 am that morning when the one-year-old kept "banging his head on the wall" and "fell over and passed out on the floor," and that no one else had been at home at the time.

An investigator who examined the child at the hospital said he had bruises on his legs, hands, arms, and body, but conceded that the "open sores on his front-facing hip bones appear to be from a diaper rubbing against the skin for prolonged periods of time."

In a probable cause statement, police said Estrada initially corroborated his wife's claims that the injuries were self-inflicted but later admitted to spanking and hitting the boy out of frustration due to the boy’s incessant crying.

"Estrada confessed to inflicting a combination of physical injuries, more than two, by means of spanking and hitting," the statement read. "He stated this was done out of frustration due to environmental and economical reasons as well as frustrations for the child’s constant and incessant crying."

He has since been charged with child abuse, intentional infliction of serious physical injury, which is a second-degree felony, and was booked into the Weber County Jail.

A public-safety assessment filed in the 2nd District Court red-flagged the 22-year-old as having an "elevated risk of committing violent crime," following which District Judge Reuben Renstrom ruled that Estrada constituted a substantial danger of violence and signed an order that required him to be held without bail.

Estrada is scheduled to make his first appearance in court on February 25 and does not yet have an attorney to represent him.

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