Hidden camera filmed man attacking sleeping child, 'suspending the victim in the air' via chokehold: Sheriff

A 27-year-old antheral successful Florida is accused of attacking a tiny sleeping kid aft helium was allegedly caught connected location surveillance footage grabbing the kid from his furniture and placing him successful a "chokehold."

Dominic Fisher was taken into custody connected Tuesday and charged with 2 counts of cruelty toward a kid by aggravated kid abuse, tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

"This video is beyond disturbing," Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said successful a connection pursuing the arrest. "I'm disgusted by this low-life and his senseless enactment against an guiltless sleeping child. We volition bash everything we tin to guarantee this antheral faces the harshest penalties possible," said Sheriff Marceno.

The sheriff's bureau enactment retired a news release accompanied by a 29-second clip showing parts of the alleged onslaught that authorities called "chilling." In the footage, a antheral authorities accidental is Fisher tin beryllium seen walking into the chamber portion the kid was asleep, past "grabbing them astir the cervix and placing them successful the chokehold," adding that "the choking lasted for aggregate seconds."

According to a probable origin affidavit, deputies connected Aug. 26 responded to a location aft getting a telephone reporting an lawsuit of kid abuse. Save for Fisher, the names and relationships of the unfortunate and witnesses are redacted from the document.

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Upon arriving, archetypal responders made interaction with a woman, presumably the victim's mother, who said that she had placed a hidden camera successful her son's chamber and aboriginal observed Fisher putting the lad "in a chokehold portion helium slept astatine astir 2 a.m. that morning."

She said she enactment the camera successful the child's country due to the fact that helium had travel to her with erstwhile complaints that were "vague successful nature," but successful notation to him "not liking [Fisher]."

"[The victim] was visibly upset and timid with [investigators] and refused to marque immoderate disclosures successful notation to the incident," the affidavit states. "[Investigators] observed bruising to unfortunate one's cervix country accordant with the surveillance video provided by his parent to LCSO, successful which helium is seen being placed into a headlock by Dominic Fisher."

The affidavit besides describes the onslaught seen successful the footage, with investigators penning that Fisher was "suspending the unfortunate successful the aerial via the chokehold" portion the unfortunate could beryllium seen "flailing his legs and successful evident distress."

The unfortunate further told investigators that the erstwhile evening, Fisher had travel into his country and "kicked him successful the tummy and punched him successful the cervix portion helium slept," adding that Fisher "does this often." The victim's sibling corroborated the victim's story, authorities said.

Investigators obtained a warrant and seized the surveillance camera and footage arsenic evidence.

When brought successful for questioning, authorities said Fisher invoked his rights and declined to supply a statement. Details from the victim's forensic interrogation were wholly redacted from the document.

"Based connected the probe successful its totality to see video surveillance obtained successful which Dominic is seen aggressively choking unfortunate 1 respective times passim the aboriginal greeting hours of August 26, 2025, disclosures made by unfortunate 1 and unfortunate two, and injuries observed connected unfortunate one's cervix portion accordant with each statements obtained Detective Quijano established probable origin to apprehension and complaint Dominic Fisher," the affidavit concludes.