Dad shook his baby son so violently he caused permanent brain damage

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A dad caused catastrophic and permanent brain damage to his own eight-week-old son after he violently shook the child, a court has heard.

Nicholas Bateman, 31, lied for years about how his son suffered the injuries, claiming his he had accidentally hit his head while being picked up.

But once his trial started Bateman told the terrible truth – that he’d shaken the infant because he wouldn’t stop crying on March 9, 2018, reports Wales Online.The child is now aged five and has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak, eat, or stand and cannot manage to sleep without being medicated, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard.A judge said upon sending him to prison for 10 years and nine months that no sentence could undo the damage he had caused.Tom Roberts, prosecuting, told the court that prior to the incident, the baby boy had been "thriving" and there were no concerns about his health or treatment.The day of the attack, mother attended a doctor's appointment and left her partner in charge of the house.

When she returned the little boy was lying on the sofa taking "short, sharp, gulping" breaths and turning blue and she found her partner crying.