Unidentified Baby 2 Months - Tortured - Lake County

Lake County man charged with torturing infant
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Updated: Tuesday, 02 Mar 2010, 1:41 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 02 Mar 2010, 1:39 PM EST


LAKE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A Tavares
man, who works as a field appraiser for the Lake County property
appraiser’s office, has been charged with two counts of aggravated
child abuse after police say he admitted to torturing and abusing a
2-month old infant girl. Robert Andrew Young, 23, was arrested early Tuesday morning after he told police he abused the infant. According to a Lake County Sheriff's Office
report, the baby was taken to Leesburg Regional Medical Center by her
mother who told medical staff that the baby was continuously crying.
X-rays taken at the hospital showed that baby had multiple rib
fractures that were in various stages of healing. Young told the
hospital staff that he had caused the injuries. Deputies from
the Lake County Sheriff’s Office then spoke to Young who told them that
he had squeezed the baby girl’s chest with both his hands wrapped
around her chest two to three times a week for approximately one month.
Investigators say Young also told them he bent the infant’s fingers
backwards as well as bending her wrist downward until she cried. Young
says he also would pinch or squeeze the infant’s toes, fingers, or
knees to make her cry. Young told deputies that he did these things to
the infant because she would not sleep and noticed that when he did it
she would go to sleep.
Young also told investigators that he would push his hand down on her stomach so she would have a bowel movement. He
went on to tell detectives that he knew he was hurting the baby and
need to stop but was afraid to tell because doing so would make him out
to be a “monster” who could hurt a child.