Dad Arrested for Beating 3-Month Old Son in Las Vegas
Last week, Las Vegas police arrested a twenty-one-year old dad for allegedly violating Nevada child abuse law on his infant son. The three-month-old was rushed to a medical center in critical condition with injuries police say are consistent with blunt-force trauma to his abdomen and bite marks. The dad was booked into the CCDC on eight counts of breaking Nevada child abuse law with substantial bodily harm and other charges.
Nevada child abuse law makes it a crime to willfully cause or allow a child to endure unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering. Anyone convicted of willfully abusing a child with substantial bodily injury or mental harm faces two to twenty years in prison. If the child was less than fourteen and the alleged abuse was sexual in nature, the sentence increases to life with the possibility of parole after fifteen years.
If someone is accused of willfully abusing a child without substantial or mental harm in Nevada, the possible penalties depend on if the citizen accused has any previous child abuse convictions. If so, the sentence range is two to fifteen years, but if not, the sentence may be only one to six years. In cases of neglect or endangerment, penalties may be as little as one year to as much as life depending on the age of the child, the nature of the abuse, whether substantial bodily or mental harm occurred, and whether the accused has past convictions.
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