A 35-year-old Wisconsin father has been detained after allegedly severely abusing his 6-week-old newborn son, resulting in broken femurs, fractured ribs, and other near-fatal injuries.
William Paul Page was arrested on Monday and charged with one count of physical abuse of a child by repeated acts intentionally causing grave bodily damage and one count of strangling or suffocation, according to court records seen by Law&Crime. He appeared before Outagamie County Circuit Judge Brian G. Figy, who ordered pretrial detention and a $100,000 cash-only bond.
The investigation began on September 29, when the newborn’s mother brought him to a local hospital for mouth injuries. During negotiations with medical personnel, she allegedly confessed that she had witnessed Page physically assault the infant a week before, slapping him in the chest during an “angry outburst.”…