VICTOR PATTERSON Jr - 13 Weeks - Lincoln NE

A Lincoln man is accused of throwing his 13-week-old son into a
coffee table while upset, then accidentally slamming the baby's head
into the bottom of an open medicine cabinet the same day.

A doctor at Children's Hospital in Omaha discovered
Victor Patterson Jr. had a skull fracture, five broken ribs, a lacerated
liver and a broken collarbone. The boy's mother took him to the
emergency room at BryanLGH Medical Center East on Thursday evening after
he kept vomiting his baby formula.

Police believe earlier that day, the boy's father, Victor
Patterson Sr., squeezed him hard enough to break his ribs, and, after
setting him on a counter near their bathroom sink, jerked him upward,
hitting the baby's head against the cabinet in their apartment at 1523
Superior St., according to an affidavit by Investigator Michael Barry of
the Lincoln Police Department's Family Crimes Unit.

Weeks earlier, the boy's collarbone was broken when his father squeezed him tightly, the affidavit says.

Patterson Sr., who turned 25 Saturday, the same day he
was arrested, appeared in Lancaster County Court on Monday on a charge
of felony child abuse. Judge Jean Lovell set his bond at 10 percent of
$25,000. He remained in custody Monday.

Authorities already had taken custody of the baby boy and a 15-month-old daughter.


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