The DESLEGTE Twins - 7 Months/ Boy and Girl - Kearns (SW of Salt Lake City) UT

Kearns resident Antoneus Deslegte, 24, was
charged with five second-degree felonies for child abuse Friday.
Deslegte is accused of severely beating his 7-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.

The daughter was admitted to Primary
Children’s Medical Center on June 19 for a large cut and bruise near her
eye, police records stated. After arriving in the emergency room, she
was given a full set of X-rays, which revealed a fractured bone in her leg.

Doctors asked that the girl’s twin brother be
examined, police reports stated, and noticed his leg was also fractured
and he had an older, healing skull fracture.

According to police records, Deslegte said
his daughter had fallen backward on the swing, causing the cut and
bruise. He also remembered picking her up almost a month before and
hearing a pop come from her leg.

Police reports had multiple accounts from the
mother and other family members stating that Deslegte was “rough” with
the children, including shoving pacifiers into their mouths and picking
them up by one arm.

According to court documents, a pediatrician
and specialist said the cut and the bruise were from two separate blows,
“likely caused by blunt force trauma.”

The specialist concluded that Deslegte’s
explanations did not match the twins’ injuries, and that the children
were injured by another person, court documents said.


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