http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2016/09/09/police-parolee-fatally-struck-baby-chair/90133340/
Police say a 24-year-old convicted child abuser confessed Thursday to fatally striking a baby with a chair after he became "frustrated" earlier this week in north Fort Collins.
The 11-month-old child suffered life-threatening injuries in the alleged attack and died Friday at a Denver-area hospital, a family friend confirmed. Court records show the suspect — who is not the child's father — admitted to the attack, but only after he and the child's mother concocted a story alleging that the girl was injured by accident. (Hope her ass gets charged, too.)
Juan Canales-Hernandez told Fort Collins police that he was alone Wednesday afternoon with RaeLynn Martinez in the Coachlight Plaza Apartments in north Fort Collins. He said he had been "playing" with the child by tossing her into the air when she fell and hit her head, Fort Collins investigators wrote in the man's arrest affidavit.
The girl started crying, so he tried to feed her a bottle and then sat her incorrectly in a high chair. That's when he said he got "frustrated," picked up another chair and swung it at the girl, knocking her to the floor where she laid motionless, he reportedly told police.
He then called the girl's mother, Alexa Coria, who had been picking another child up from school. Canales-Hernandez drove the unconscious girl and her mother to the Poudre Valley Hospital emergency room.
Before they arrived, and upon his request, the Canales-Hernandez and Coria allegedly concocted a story that would keep Canales-Hernandez out of prison. He was sentenced in 2013 to four years in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to Class 4 felony child abuse that negligently caused serious injuries. He has since been paroled in that case — files were not immediately available late Friday.
Coria told investigators the girl must have fallen while climbing on the high chair while she was in the bathroom. She said the girl went "dangly" in her arms, and she spent 30 to 45 minutes trying to keep her awake by placing her body in the water of the upstairs shower before ultimately having Canales-Hernandez drive them to the hospital.
The girl was airlifted to Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora where she went into cardiac arrest. Doctors there determined she had suffered a severe brain injury from a "very traumatic" event that was not consistent with an accidental fall like what Coria had described.
Officers on Thursday interviewed the older girl whom Coria was picking up from school when the incident happened. She said the two adults spoke on the phone during the drive home from school, and when she got home she heard the younger girl breathing.
She told investigators it looked like the child's "brain was dangling."
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The 11-month-old child suffered life-threatening injuries in the alleged attack and died Friday at a Denver-area hospital, a family friend confirmed. Court records show the suspect — who is not the child's father — admitted to the attack, but only after he and the child's mother concocted a story alleging that the girl was injured by accident. (Hope her ass gets charged, too.)
Juan Canales-Hernandez told Fort Collins police that he was alone Wednesday afternoon with RaeLynn Martinez in the Coachlight Plaza Apartments in north Fort Collins. He said he had been "playing" with the child by tossing her into the air when she fell and hit her head, Fort Collins investigators wrote in the man's arrest affidavit.
The girl started crying, so he tried to feed her a bottle and then sat her incorrectly in a high chair. That's when he said he got "frustrated," picked up another chair and swung it at the girl, knocking her to the floor where she laid motionless, he reportedly told police.
He then called the girl's mother, Alexa Coria, who had been picking another child up from school. Canales-Hernandez drove the unconscious girl and her mother to the Poudre Valley Hospital emergency room.
Before they arrived, and upon his request, the Canales-Hernandez and Coria allegedly concocted a story that would keep Canales-Hernandez out of prison. He was sentenced in 2013 to four years in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to Class 4 felony child abuse that negligently caused serious injuries. He has since been paroled in that case — files were not immediately available late Friday.
Coria told investigators the girl must have fallen while climbing on the high chair while she was in the bathroom. She said the girl went "dangly" in her arms, and she spent 30 to 45 minutes trying to keep her awake by placing her body in the water of the upstairs shower before ultimately having Canales-Hernandez drive them to the hospital.
The girl was airlifted to Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora where she went into cardiac arrest. Doctors there determined she had suffered a severe brain injury from a "very traumatic" event that was not consistent with an accidental fall like what Coria had described.
Officers on Thursday interviewed the older girl whom Coria was picking up from school when the incident happened. She said the two adults spoke on the phone during the drive home from school, and when she got home she heard the younger girl breathing.
She told investigators it looked like the child's "brain was dangling."
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http://www.coloradoan.com/story/new...infant-death-bit-bruised-child-2013/90271012/
Details of his Thursday arrest mirror those of a 2013 case for which he pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury, a Class 4 felony. That attack left a child also unrelated to Canales-Hernandez suffering a broken arm, a torn pancreas, hundreds of bruises and several bite marks.
According to the Nov. 13, 2013, arrest affidavit, Canales-Hernandez was watching a previous girlfriend's young son and other neighborhood children in Fort Collins on Oct. 11, 2013, in return for a place to stay because he was homeless.
Canales-Hernandez told investigators that the child threw water on him, so he retaliated by sucking on the child's face and leaving bite marks. He said he then wrestled with the child and spun the child around before becoming dizzy, sending both him and the child crashing into the corner of a glass television stand. The move pinned the child between Canales-Hernandez and the stand.
At that point, Canales-Hernandez said he pinned down the child's arms, poked him with his index fingers and told the child to "shake it off." The boy did not laugh, so Canales-Hernandez poked him harder.
He told the boy's mother about the child's facial injuries when she arrived home from work and she saw the bruises on the child's body. The child's mother told police she thought he would be OK. But when the boy awoke later that night screaming, she called her mother in Maryland.
The grandmother traveled to Fort Collins, picked the boy up and had him transported and admitted to Carroll Hospital in Westminster, Maryland. He was transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore with life-threatening injuries and underwent surgery to remove a portion of his pancreas.
The child's left forearm was fractured, his pancreas was torn in half, his liver was bruised and he had more than 100 other bruises on his body, court records show. He had bite marks on his inner thigh and face.
Canales-Hernandez accepted a plea deal in the case and pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. He was sentenced to serve four years in the Colorado Department of Corrections, but had since been paroled.
According to the Nov. 13, 2013, arrest affidavit, Canales-Hernandez was watching a previous girlfriend's young son and other neighborhood children in Fort Collins on Oct. 11, 2013, in return for a place to stay because he was homeless.
Canales-Hernandez told investigators that the child threw water on him, so he retaliated by sucking on the child's face and leaving bite marks. He said he then wrestled with the child and spun the child around before becoming dizzy, sending both him and the child crashing into the corner of a glass television stand. The move pinned the child between Canales-Hernandez and the stand.
At that point, Canales-Hernandez said he pinned down the child's arms, poked him with his index fingers and told the child to "shake it off." The boy did not laugh, so Canales-Hernandez poked him harder.
He told the boy's mother about the child's facial injuries when she arrived home from work and she saw the bruises on the child's body. The child's mother told police she thought he would be OK. But when the boy awoke later that night screaming, she called her mother in Maryland.
The grandmother traveled to Fort Collins, picked the boy up and had him transported and admitted to Carroll Hospital in Westminster, Maryland. He was transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore with life-threatening injuries and underwent surgery to remove a portion of his pancreas.
The child's left forearm was fractured, his pancreas was torn in half, his liver was bruised and he had more than 100 other bruises on his body, court records show. He had bite marks on his inner thigh and face.
Canales-Hernandez accepted a plea deal in the case and pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. He was sentenced to serve four years in the Colorado Department of Corrections, but had since been paroled.