Las Vegas police arrest man in abuse of infant daughter

A antheral told Las Vegas constabulary that “losing” successful a video crippled and his baby’s cries had upset him to the constituent that helium squeezed her limb and pushed her knees into her chest, according to his apprehension report.

The study said that the baby, whose property was redacted, had suffered respective breached bones.

Police arrested Day-Quaun Adkins connected Dec. 29 connected 3 counts of kid maltreatment causing important bodily harm, according to Las Vegas Justice Court logs.

The 21-year-old suspect, who is adjacent owed successful tribunal Thursday morning, remained astatine the Clark County Detention Center connected Wednesday with a $100,000 bail.

Should Adkins bail out, helium would beryllium held nether high-monitoring location apprehension and barred from interacting with children, according to tribunal logs, which bash not database an lawyer for him.

A pediatrician contacted Clark County Child Protective Services connected Dec. 21 aft seeing that the baby, who was taken successful for a “possible infection” successful her mouth, had “bite marks” passim her body, according to the apprehension report.

The bureau subsequently contacted the Metropolitan Police Department.

Physicians astatine University Medical Center recovered weeks-old fractures of the baby’s head, tibia, femur and 4 ribs, the study said.

Days earlier, Adkins and the baby’s parent had confronted a sitter — who had watched the kid portion they went retired connected a day — astir the bites but decided against calling police, the fishy told detectives.

The time of his arrest, Adkins told detectives that helium had burped the babe “too hard” astir 5 weeks prior.

Although helium did not spot immoderate injuries, helium told constabulary that the incidental had “scared him and helium made definite not to burp her that hard again,” the study said.

That is erstwhile constabulary judge the rib fractures occurred, according to the report.

A fewer days later, Adkins and his girl were the lone ones up precocious astatine night. The study said helium was playing video games, and the babe was crying.

The “frustration and anger” of losing successful the crippled was “compounded” by the baby’s cries and her refusal to devour from a bottle, and that is wherefore helium squeezed her leg, according to the report.

He told constabulary that the babe began to eat, but “he was inactive upset,” truthful helium pushed her knees into her chest, the study said.

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