GUILTY NY - David Cook for sexually assaulting infant, Glen Falls, 2012

GLENS FALLS -- A Glens Falls man was charged with three felonies late Sunday for allegedly sexually assaulting and critically injuring a 7-week-old girl, police said.

David B. Cook, 33, of Smith Street, was charged with two counts of aggravated second-degree sexual abuse and a charge of second-degree assault, Glens Falls Police Sgt. Chris Eggleston said.

The girl suffered a broken right leg, injuries to her genitalia and a possible head injury, police said. She was in critical condition at Albany Medical Center late Monday.

Cook is accused of injuring the girl, for whom he was caring at his home, sometime before late Saturday. The relationship between Cook and the child was withheld to protect the victim’s identity.

Police said the child’s 21-year-old mother left her in Cook’s care for two days while she stayed at a friend’s home in Saratoga Springs, and when she returned Saturday night, she noticed the child appeared injured, officials said.

In a statement Cook allegedly gave police that was filed in Glens Falls City Court, which provides a shockingly graphic outline of how Cook claims the child was injured, he is quoted as saying he told the mother over the phone Friday night that the child was hurt, but the mother was intoxicated and “did not offer to come home.”

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In the five-page written statement, Cook is quoted as saying the baby was injured during accidental falls twice in recent weeks.

On Friday afternoon, when he was angry because he believed the child’s mother was cheating on him, Cook drank four beers in a half-hour and told police he yanked the girl’s leg “and heard a pop” while changing a diaper.

He said injuries to the girl’s genitalia occurred as he cleaned her.

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Ex-wife speaks out about suspect in Glens Falls infant assault

GLENS FALLS -- For Susan Ramirez, the final attack by David B. Cook came when he stabbed her in the abdomen with a fork, kicked her in the groin and head and vandalized her vehicle.

Ramirez had been married to Cook for five years at that point, and she and her young son had been the victims of domestic violence over and over again during that time, she said. She was afraid of what he would do to her and her son if she left him.

“It was classic battered-spouse syndrome. Each time he’d promise to change, and I’d believe him,” the Glens Falls resident recalled.

The Post-Star reviewed criminal court files and spoke with Ramirez’s lawyer, Daniel Stewart, to confirm her identity and attempt to corroborate as many of her claims as possible.

She said that, as Cook vandalized her car that day in 2006, seconds after attacking her, Ramirez ran out of their apartment on Palmer Avenue in Corinth and did not look back.

Ramirez said the allegations Cook sexually assaulted and severely injured a 7-week-old child in recent days were not surprising, considering his lengthy criminal history of violence toward women and children.

She said he shot her 4-year-old son in the face with a pellet gun years ago, for which he was not criminally charged. He also burned the boy’s face with a cigarette, held him out a window when he was 2 and threatened to kill her mother, she said.

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Cook has a 22-page criminal history that spans from the late 1990s through last year in Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties. Most of the cases were misdemeanor or lesser arrests like assault, endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated harassment, harassment and resisting arrest, though he does have at least two felony criminal contempt arrests in Glens Falls since 2008.

He was convicted in many of the cases but has avoided a felony conviction and state prison time.

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PHB said:

If LE is not elaborating on his relationship to the child, does that mean he is the father?

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Glens Falls police say the seven-week-old baby who allegedly suffered severe physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her father, David Cook, remains in critical, but stable condition.

Ramirez shows NEWS10 ABC her divorce papers, the reason for the divorce, spelled out by the court as "cruel and inhuman treatment".

Ramirez says while she is horrified by the allegations against Cook, she says she is also not surprised. "David is a lot of things, so for him to do that to a child, I'm sorry to repeat myself, but it doesn't surprise me."..

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tlcox said:

I honesly can't take it some days.

It seems that almost daily now there is some new atrocious story about yet another Piece of human excrement raping an infant or toddler.

WTH is wrong with society today? How did we end up with this semmingly ever growing population of monsters who think nothing of committing these atrocities????

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Gingy said:

It seems like the next victim I find out about is always worse than the one before -if that is possible. It's all horrible.

For example, last night, I learned Brianna Lopez's story and cried - a lot. Today too. WTH is happening to society? Has it always been this way but we are more aware due to near instant news access and social media? Like tlcox said, it seems that there's a new story every day about children being victimized, abused, raped, you name it at the hands of their parents, step-parents, parental bf/gf, extended family, (insert person here).

Here's hoping for good news about this little one soon. I'm praying for her full recovery.

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passionflower said:

BOYFRIEND violence and another mother................when will it end?
What a mix........everyday we read about abuse or death because of the mother's with violent boyfriends!!

why was this mother at a girlfriends for 2 days and left baby with him?

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Etilema said:

As annoying as Dr Laura can be, she was right about that one thing, anyway--that the biggest risk of abuse to children is from a new man in the mother's life (in other words, not the father). Clearly that isn't the ONLY possible source of abuse, but she always hammered on the fact that, statistically, it was the case. (Plus, it is the easiest risk to avoid, in my opinion (other than not allowing them to spend the night with known pedophiles or other non-related men).)

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QueenD said:

What a sick place this world is turning into!

I misread the thread header or prolly would have never come in here. I thought it said 7 YEARS old, didn't realize it says MONTHS.

So sick of this crap. These people do not deserve to live. Send them to the gas chamber, now!

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