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October 17th, 2008, 07:21 PM
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Kevin Andrew Otwell
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A Gainesville man has been charged with sexually assaulting and abusing a 2-month-old boy, leaving the baby with skull fractures that investigators said resembled a jigsaw puzzle. Gainesville Police said the baby is the son of Otwell’s girlfriend, who has not been charged.
Kevin Andrew Otwell, 22, who lives in southeast Gainesville, was arrested at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and charged with sexual assault of a child under age 12, child abuse and child neglect causing great harm. Otwell was being held at the Alachua County Jail Friday morning on a $260,000 bond.
The situation began unfolding at 2:40 p.m. Monday when Otwell and his girlfriend took the baby to the Shands emergency room.
According to Detective Leah Hayes, medical personnel at the emergency room initially determined that the baby had skull fractures, multiple bruises on the back and sides of his head, swollen and red genitals, anal tears, and bruises on his arm. In her report on Otwell’s arrest, Hayes noted that emergency room workers also found bright red blood in the victim’s diaper as well as an unknown, clear liquid.
The baby’s injuries reportedly occurred while the mother was out of the house and Otwell was caring for him. Hayes said Otwell’s initial version of events involved him giving the baby a bath and that the child slipped out of his grasp and fell from a distance of three feet into a plastic tub.
On Tuesday, after full body X-rays and scans were performed, Hayes noted that investigators and medical staff saw images of “multiple skull fractures similar to a jigsaw puzzle.”
State child abuse specialists were called in and agreed with local investigators and medical workers that the baby’s condition was inconsistent with the story Otwell gave about how the injuries occurred.
Hayes said Otwell was questioned about the injuries again on Thursday. According to Hayes, Otwell changed his version of the events that caused the child’s injuries after being told that the trauma to the baby’s skull and anus could not have been caused by the fall Otwell had described.
Otwell allegedly told investigators that he heard the baby hit something the first time he fell, but didn’t know what it was. Then Otwell reportedly claimed he dropped the baby a second time onto a tile floor from shoulder height and that the baby’s head bounced on the tile floor.
Otwell’s explanation for the injuries to the baby’s anus and genitals was that he used his finger to insert a baby wipe about an inch into the baby’s anus while cleaning the baby and that he often wiped the baby’s genitals hard with the wipes, which could have caused them to swell and redden.
Hayes concluded in her report that Otwell failed to provide information about the second fall until three days after the child was first seen at the hospital.
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20081017/news/810172918&tc=yahoo
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Kevin Andrew Otwell
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=268117522
A Gainesville man has been charged with sexually assaulting and abusing a 2-month-old boy, leaving the baby with skull fractures that investigators said resembled a jigsaw puzzle. Gainesville Police said the baby is the son of Otwell’s girlfriend, who has not been charged.
Kevin Andrew Otwell, 22, who lives in southeast Gainesville, was arrested at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and charged with sexual assault of a child under age 12, child abuse and child neglect causing great harm. Otwell was being held at the Alachua County Jail Friday morning on a $260,000 bond.
The situation began unfolding at 2:40 p.m. Monday when Otwell and his girlfriend took the baby to the Shands emergency room.
According to Detective Leah Hayes, medical personnel at the emergency room initially determined that the baby had skull fractures, multiple bruises on the back and sides of his head, swollen and red genitals, anal tears, and bruises on his arm. In her report on Otwell’s arrest, Hayes noted that emergency room workers also found bright red blood in the victim’s diaper as well as an unknown, clear liquid.
The baby’s injuries reportedly occurred while the mother was out of the house and Otwell was caring for him. Hayes said Otwell’s initial version of events involved him giving the baby a bath and that the child slipped out of his grasp and fell from a distance of three feet into a plastic tub.
On Tuesday, after full body X-rays and scans were performed, Hayes noted that investigators and medical staff saw images of “multiple skull fractures similar to a jigsaw puzzle.”
State child abuse specialists were called in and agreed with local investigators and medical workers that the baby’s condition was inconsistent with the story Otwell gave about how the injuries occurred.
Hayes said Otwell was questioned about the injuries again on Thursday. According to Hayes, Otwell changed his version of the events that caused the child’s injuries after being told that the trauma to the baby’s skull and anus could not have been caused by the fall Otwell had described.
Otwell allegedly told investigators that he heard the baby hit something the first time he fell, but didn’t know what it was. Then Otwell reportedly claimed he dropped the baby a second time onto a tile floor from shoulder height and that the baby’s head bounced on the tile floor.
Otwell’s explanation for the injuries to the baby’s anus and genitals was that he used his finger to insert a baby wipe about an inch into the baby’s anus while cleaning the baby and that he often wiped the baby’s genitals hard with the wipes, which could have caused them to swell and redden.
Hayes concluded in her report that Otwell failed to provide information about the second fall until three days after the child was first seen at the hospital.
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20081017/news/810172918&tc=yahoo
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