AUBREY HANNSZ - 4 Months/ Accused: Micah Patterson - Virginia Beach VA

Virginia Beach police have charged a man with felony child abuse in connection with the death of a four-month-old baby.
Sergeant Margie Hobbs says the child was taken to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters after a 911 call was placed reporting an unresponsive infant on Jan. 10.

The baby died the next day.

Hobbs said Micah Patterson was arrested and charged Jan. 12. She did not know the relationship between Patterson and the baby.

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/va_beach/abuse-charges-filed-in-babys-death

SEYMOUR, Mo.-- A man from Seymour has been charged with felony child abuse and neglect.
It involves a four-month old baby in Virginia Beach.
The Virginia Beach police department says 22-year-old Micah Patterson, who
was a Navy seaman, was babysitting his girlfriend's daughter on Tuesday
when the little girl stopped breathing.
Medical officials say there were clear signs of abuse on the baby's body.
Patterson had been stationed in the area since November.
The exact cause of the infant's death has not been determined.
http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-seymour-man-charged-with-abusing-child-20120115,0,3847156.story

Micah Patterson, a 22-year-old Master at Arms Third Class with the
U.S. Navy, has been charged with felony child abuse and neglect. Police
say his girlfriend left her four-month-old daughter, Aubrey Hannsz, in
Micah's care while she went out somewhere.
On January 10th, Beach
police were called to their home in the Ocean Trace Apartment Complex
and found that the baby girl was not breathing.
Investigators say as medics were taking the child to the hospital, they suspected
possible child abuse but police refused to say anything about what made
the medical team think that.
The baby was pronounced dead at the hospital, and investigators turned to Micah Patterson as the suspect.
"Obviously, at this point, what we're waiting for is the
cause of death from the medical examiner's office and then the
commonwealth will make any determination on any further charges," says
MPO Grazia Moyers of the Virginia Beach Police Department.
The Navy Personnel Command wouldn't say where Micah was based, but the Navy
Times is reporting he's been at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek
Fort Story since the end of November.
http://www.wtkr.com/news/wtkr-navy-man-charged-with-child-neglect-after-4monthold-baby-dies-20120113,0,1630829.story

For the first time since his arrest, 22-year-old Micah Patterson faced a judge through a video monitor in Virginia Beach on a charge that he abused and neglected his girlfriend's four-month-old daughter, Aubrey Hannsz.

Police say Patterson, who is a Master at Arms Third Class with the Navy, was watching Aubrey on January 10th when she stopped breathing.

Paramedics were called and investigators say that's when they noticed signs of child abuse.

Court documents obtained by NewsChannel 3 show that Patterson is accused of causing serious injury to the child by willful act, omission, or refusal to provide necessary care.

Police aren't saying which of these Patterson did. They are waiting on the cause of death from the medical examiner's office.

Right now, Patterson has been charged with one felony count of child abuse.

Patterson is being held in the Virginia Beach correctional Center without bond.

He will have a bond hearing on Thursday


http://www.wtkr.com/news/wtkr-navy-man-accused-of-neglecting-4monthold-arraigned-20120117,0,3434117.story

Grand jury to hear Virginia Beach child-abuse charge

By Kathy Adams, The Virginian-Pilot
© May 30, 2012

VIRGINIA BEACH

In early January, Samantha Murawski and her 4-month-old daughter moved into a Birdneck-area apartment with Murawski's 22-year-old boyfriend.

Six days later, on Jan. 11, the baby girl was dead.

Police identified the infant as Aubrey Hannsz, and an autopsy determined she died of abusive head trauma consistent with shaken-baby syndrome, prosecutor Philip C. Hollowell said Tuesday during a hearing in Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. The infant also had suffered trauma to her neck, chest, abdomen and anus, Hollowell said.

The day after her death, police arrested Murawski's boyfriend, Micah James Patterson, on a charge of felony child abuse.

Judge Randall Blow on Tuesday found there was enough evidence to send that charge to a Circuit Court grand jury, which similarly will determine whether there's enough evidence to go to trial.

A grand jury last week also indicted Patterson, of the 1100 block of Ocean Trace Lane in Virginia Beach, on additional charges of second-degree murder and object sexual penetration in Aubrey's death. He's scheduled for trial on those charges Aug. 8.

Patterson is a Navy seaman assigned to the public safety staff at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, according to the Navy's Personnel Command. He is originally from Seymour, Mo., and has been in the Navy almost five years, mostly assigned to maritime security squadrons, according to the command.

During the hearing Tuesday, Murawski testified she'd never seen Patterson abuse her daughter, but she said he'd often complain about the infant, saying, "She's a pain. She's being a pill."

Patterson baby-sat Aubrey the morning of Jan. 10, after which Murawski found a set of thumb-sized bruises on the infant's hips, she testified. Patterson told her he didn't know where they came from, she said.

Aubrey began vomiting and died at a hospital the next day, Murawski said. She said she wouldn't have harmed her daughter.

"I would never," she said through tears. "I would never do anything ever to hurt that baby. She was my life."

http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/grand-jury-hear-virginia-beach-childabuse-charge