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Snipped...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 victims identity.
Police said the childs 21-year-old mother left her in Cooks care for two days while she stayed at a friends 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.
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 childs mother was cheating on him, Cook drank four beers in a half-hour and told police he yanked the girls leg and heard a pop while changing a diaper.
He said injuries to the girls genitalia occurred as he cleaned her.
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