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New Jersey dad charged with knocking out his month-old son
The father of a 4-week-old baby has been charged with beating the boy until he lost consciousness.
NJ.com reports that police responded to a May 31, 2020, call regarding an unresponsive baby in Passaic County. A paramedic crew brought the child to a Paterson, N.J., hospital where doctors observed “external and internal injuries.”
An affidavit reportedly indicated the baby was recovering from a fractured leg and had suffered several bruises to his brain. The boy’s father, identified by NJ.com as 30-year-old Slobodan Todoric, was arrested Monday on charges including second-degree aggravated assault, as well as child abuse and neglect.
A Rockland County native beat his 4-week-old son, leaving him with serious injuries, authorities charged.
Slobodan Todoric, a 30-year-old Spring Valley native, now of Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, was released with pre-trial monitoring, among other conditions, following a first appearance before a judge in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson on Tuesday, May 11.
It began with the unresponsive infant being taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center on May 31, 2020, Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wayne Police Chief Jack McNiff said in a joint release.
Emergency room doctors discovered external and internal injuries, they said Tuesday.