Bail Lowered for Man Charged with Injuring Infant

A 28-year-old Waukesha man accused of severely injuring a 5-month-old baby had his bail lowered Monday from $75,000 to $10,000.

But with the lower bail is the condition that Alaba Oshogwemoh has to turn over his passport or provide information to Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge William Domina that the passport has expired. Oshogwemoh also is to have no unsupervised contact with any child under age 18 if he is released from jail.

The Waukesha man remains jailed in lieu of the $10,000 bail on the two counts of felony child abuse. One count is for intentionally causing great bodily harm and the other is for recklessly causing great bodily harm.

Oshogwemoh faces a maximum of 55 years in prison if convicted of both charges.

According to the complaint:

A doctor told Waukesha detectives on Jan. 13 that the then-5-month-old baby, who is not Oshogwemoh's child, had seven rib fractures, three skull fractures from blunt force trauma, numerous bruises, a ruptured blood vessel on the right eye, a possible cigarette burn on the chest and two lacerations on the baby’s liver.

Oshogwemoh allegedly admitted to shaking and squeezing the baby, hitting the baby's head on the ceiling and the couch and wrapping the baby too tight in the blanket.

Oshogwemoh allegedly  told investigators that he was frustrated by the baby’s crying. He also said he did not tell the baby’s mother about hitting the baby’s head on the ceiling. The ceiling incident was when he was “screwing” around with the baby and not out of frustration, he told police.

“The defendant stated that he knew what he did was wrong and that he was accepting full responsibility for the injuries to (the baby), but although he was responsibility on his part for how he handled (the baby) too roughly, there was no way he intentionally hurt (the baby),” the complaint states.