Man Gets 27 Months Jail for Hurting Infant

A 29-year-old Waukesha man who severely injured a baby in January 2011 after becoming frustrated by the infant’s crying will spend 27 months in jail for the incident. Judge William Domina sentenced the man Jan. 31.

Alaba Oshogwemoh pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor counts of battery in The man originally was charged with felony child abuse. He receives 382 days of credit for time he has already served in lieu of making bail in the Waukesha County Jail, according to online court records.

According to the complaint:

Police were contacted Thursday after the baby was admitted to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin with substantial injuries that did not appear accidental. The Waukesha County Human Services Department was notified about the trauma to the baby’s body.

The baby’s mother told investigators she had sought medical attention several times before Thursday because the baby was not holding down formula and was having “failure to thrive” issues. The baby was taken to Children’s Hospital on Nov. 10 and weighed 12.6 pounds but weighed 11.4 pounds on Thursday.

A doctor told detectives the baby 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, who was in a relationship with the baby’s mother, 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 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.