Inset: Cameron Coronado (Sauk County Sheriff's Office). Background: The Portage County Police Department (Google Maps).
A 32-year-old Wisconsin constabulary serviceman faces transgression charges aft allegedly beating his 6-month-old son and causing a encephalon bleed due to the fact that the babe would not halt crying. Authorities arrested Cameron Coronado, a Portage Police Department officer, this week and charged him with kid maltreatment with the intent to origin bodily harm and disorderly behaviour with a home maltreatment modifier, tribunal records show.
A transgression ailment filed Monday successful Sauk County says the incidental happened aboriginal Saturday morning, Aug. 16, wrong the family's home, according to Madison, Wisconsin, ABC affiliate KWOW.
Coronado's wife, whose sanction is not included successful the report, reportedly told a detective with the Sauk County Sheriff's Office that she woke up astatine astir 3 a.m. that greeting to provender their 6-month-old son. Coronado besides awoke and brought the babe into the kitchen.
The woman said the babe was crying erstwhile she allegedly heard Coronado say, "Oh my deity unopen the f— up," Madison CBS affiliate WISC reported. Immediately afterward, she told the detective that the baby's crying had changed by the clip she got to the room and claimed she saw Coronado wiping humor distant from their baby's mouth.
When she confronted Coronado astir what had happened, helium allegedly admitted that helium had "shoved" the pacifier into the child's mouth, which caused the bleeding. The woman reportedly said she could spot a chopped connected the backmost of their son's throat. The kid past fell dormant briefly, but awoke a abbreviated portion aboriginal and began crying and appeared to person occupation swallowing.
The woman said that erstwhile she told Coronado they had to instrumentality their lad to the hospital, helium began to "spiral," Madison NBC affiliate WMTV reported. He past reportedly said helium "knew what was going to happen" if they sought aesculapian treatment.
The ailment further stated that Coronado's woman told the detective that helium had a "low vexation tolerance," peculiarly with the children. She recounted instances wherever helium had punched holes successful the walls retired of frustration. On July 9, she said, erstwhile the children were fussy earlier bed, helium threatened to "kill these f—ing kids" if the babe did not halt crying.
At the hospital, doctors reportedly recovered different outer injuries from blunt unit trauma inflicted connected the baby, arsenic good arsenic bleeding successful the infant's brain.
Portage Police Department Chief Keith Klafke confirmed to WMTV that pursuing his arrest, Coronado was placed connected paid administrative leave.
"His actions are not a reflection of the large men and women of the Portage Police Department," Klafke told the station.
Court records bespeak that a peculiar authoritative was appointed to oversee the lawsuit against Coronado. A tribunal day has not yet been scheduled.