Ohio – An Ohio was arrested last week and charged with assauIt, endangering chiIdren, domestic vioIence, obstruction and disorderIy conduct after police say he attacked his girIfriend and their baby while lntoxicated. Ohio authorities took the defendant, 23-year-old A. Mappes, into custody at the scene and later at the hospital after officers say he became combative and refused to follow commands.
Police say the incident began when officers were called to the family’s residence in Ohio where the defendant and his girIfriend live. According to affidavits cited by local news, the woman reported that her child’s father struck her and left visible bruising and marks on her face and arm; officers observed bruising and two “bloody handprints” on the back of a sweatshirt that were documented in the probable cause statement. At the time of the alleged attack, the girIfriend was holding the couple’s six-month-old baby.
Investigators say the baby also showed injuries consistent with being struck. The probable cause affidavit described red marks and bruising on the baby’s face, shoulders and chest, and officers reported that the defendant struck the child in the head while the mother held the infant. The child was examined by medical staff, and those observations were included in police reports used to support the arrest…