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January 14th, 2009, 01:11 AM
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Austen
A Palmyra mother faces at least five years in prison after a jury found her guilty today of seriously injuring her four-week-old son in March.
Kristin Lehman, 21, sobbed and hugged members of her weeping family after the jury returned its guilty verdict on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault and endangering the welfare of children.
Doctors from Hershey Medical Center had testified that infant Austen Lehman was suffering seizures and had bleeding in his brain, a broken collarbone, a bruise on his head and scratches on his leg when Kristin Lehman and her boyfriend, Eric Deller, brought him to the emergency room March 7.
Pediatric neurosurgeon Mark Dias estimated the life-threatening injuries occurred overnight March 5 to 6 and they were caused by abuse, not accident.
Both Lehman and Deller, who is not the baby's father, told hospital personnel and Lebanon County detective Jason Cleck they had no idea what happened to Austen.
Cleck said he interviewed both Lehman and Deller several times, and determined they were the only ones who could have been alone with Austen. On the fourth interview, Lehman told Cleck she "may have picked him up roughly" the night of March 5 when Austen was crying inconsolably, and she later e-mailed Cleck that she "accidentally hit his head on the wall."
While testifying on her own behalf today, however, Lehman said what she told Cleck was not true. Instead, she said, she fell over the bassinet with Austen, and that's what caused his injuries.
Austen is living with Kristin's father. He has recovered "fairly well," but he might still face cognitive difficulties resulting from atrophy in his brain, Dias said.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/01/palmyra_mom_guilty_of_abuse.html
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Austen
A Palmyra mother faces at least five years in prison after a jury found her guilty today of seriously injuring her four-week-old son in March.
Kristin Lehman, 21, sobbed and hugged members of her weeping family after the jury returned its guilty verdict on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault and endangering the welfare of children.
Doctors from Hershey Medical Center had testified that infant Austen Lehman was suffering seizures and had bleeding in his brain, a broken collarbone, a bruise on his head and scratches on his leg when Kristin Lehman and her boyfriend, Eric Deller, brought him to the emergency room March 7.
Pediatric neurosurgeon Mark Dias estimated the life-threatening injuries occurred overnight March 5 to 6 and they were caused by abuse, not accident.
Both Lehman and Deller, who is not the baby's father, told hospital personnel and Lebanon County detective Jason Cleck they had no idea what happened to Austen.
Cleck said he interviewed both Lehman and Deller several times, and determined they were the only ones who could have been alone with Austen. On the fourth interview, Lehman told Cleck she "may have picked him up roughly" the night of March 5 when Austen was crying inconsolably, and she later e-mailed Cleck that she "accidentally hit his head on the wall."
While testifying on her own behalf today, however, Lehman said what she told Cleck was not true. Instead, she said, she fell over the bassinet with Austen, and that's what caused his injuries.
Austen is living with Kristin's father. He has recovered "fairly well," but he might still face cognitive difficulties resulting from atrophy in his brain, Dias said.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/01/palmyra_mom_guilty_of_abuse.html