4-MO Baby Brutally Beaten
Parents of four-month-old baby ‘broke six bones in his body by beating him with cutlery and whipping him with electric cord’, court hears
A four-month-old baby suffered horrific injuries including six broken bones at the hands of his mother and father who battered him with cutlery and a flex cord, a court heard today. Doctors found Ethan Sheldon had three broken ribs, a shattered collarbone, a fractured ankle, a broken toe and more than 20 bruises when he was examined in October 2010. His father Christopher Sheldon, 32, and mother Charlotte, 24, have denied causing the injuries at Plymouth Crown Court. READ MORE HERE
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