INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) – A 19-year-old suburban Kansas City, Missouri, man is
facing charges accusing him of causing injuries that left a 1-year-old boy brain
dead.
Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker on Monday announced child abuse
charges against Carlos Alaniz of Independence.
The Kansas City Star reports that police were called to Children’s Mercy
Hospital and learned that the child had a lacerated liver, several broken ribs
and bruises, along with signs of previous brain injury. The child is the son of
Alaniz’s girlfriend.
Police say Alaniz told them he struck the child because the boy would not stop
crying, and he didn’t like the fact that the boy looked like his biological
father.
Alaniz does not yet have a listed attorney.
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