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Man headbutts, bites, critically injures 1-year-old, police say
An unconscious 1-year-old child was taken to an emergency room in early April after a man head-butted the girl and bit her repeatedly......
The child’s mother told police she also bit the child to discipline her and to “demonstrate to her it was bad behavior".....
Police were called to the Freeway Inn near Lomas and Eubank about 1 p.m. April 5, where they found the 1-year-old was unconscious with “multiple facial and head injuries,” according to the complaint. The child has recovered and was released from the hospital in stable condition last week.....
The child’s mother, 21-year-old Rachel Martinez, and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Clinton Popchoke, told police the girl had fallen off the bed.
But the child’s injuries didn’t match that story, according to the complaint. Doctors found fresh human bite marks on the child’s right arm, and a nurse told police the head injuries “were not consistent with a simple fall and were consistent with non-accidental trauma,” according to the complaint.
Both Popchoke and Martinez changed their stories when interviewed at police headquarters, police say.
Popchoke told police the girl was crying and screaming, so he picked her up from her crib and head-butted her.
She immediately went limp and unconscious, he said.
Martinez told police Popchoke had been abusing her child for about two weeks before the head-butting incident, according to the complaint.
She allowed Popchoke to spank and bite her daughter, and said she had bitten the child herself.
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http://www.abqjournal.com/574002/ne...critically-injures-1-year-old-police-say.html