GUILTY NH - Jose Orta-Santana for brutally beating infant, Newmarket, 3 March 2015

RT51 said:

http://www.wmur.com/news/newmarket-man-accused-of-assaulting-3monthold/31625948

Investigators said the boy was taken to Exeter Hospital on Saturday after suffering a seizure. He was then airlifted to Boston, where doctors found evidence of two skull fractures and 17 broken bones, from his ribs to his toes, police said.

Orta-Santana waived his arraignment and didn't appear in court. According to court paperwork, investigators believe some of the boy's injuries date back to around the time he was born.

This poor baby! It makes me sick!

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wendybtn said:

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You won't believe what this poor excuse of a father is saying now! Mom did not want to know or knew and did not care. Apparently, this kid missed his two week and two month appointments at the pediatrician's office or he would not have been in these people's custody when his dad punched him in the head on the day he was admitted to the hospital.

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A Newmarket man accused of fracturing his infant son’s skull and breaking several other bones will likely plead insanity at his trial in September, according to a notice filed by his public defender...

According to the affidavit, Orta-Santana eventually broke down crying and told police that he had hit the infant “a few times,” and had not been getting enough sleep. Orta-Santana confessed that he punched the infant three times in the head, then noticed that the infant’s head had begun to swell...

Orta-Santana’s trial is scheduled for Sept. 8 in Rockingham Superior Court.

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A Newmarket father who admitted to punching his 3-month-old son in the head and crushing his ribs because he became frustrated with the child’s “constant crying” was sentenced to spend at least a decade in prison.

Jose Orta-Santana, 26, was given a 10- to 25-year sentence in connection with abusing his infant son over the course of several weeks between January and February 2015.

Orta-Santana pleaded guilty in February to 10 counts of first-degree assault for abusing the tot while he and his girlfriend lived at 276 Great Bay Woods in Newmarket. The baby sustained fractures to eight ribs, and five fractures to his skull over the course of weeks between January and February 2015.

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Prosecutors asked for a 14- to 45-year prison sentencing, citing the ongoing pain that the tot had to endure with each breath he took because of his broken ribs.

LaFrance said that eight of the baby’s 24 ribs sustained fractures, and that he had no way of knowing that the pain would eventually go away.

“All he understands is that every time he breathes in, he is in pain,” LaFrance said.

The boy’s mother told Judge Andrew Schulman that her son is working with therapists three times a week on his speech and learning, but it remains unknown how much he has been affected by his father’s abuse.

“We have done a lot of work to get him where he is at this point,” the mother said.

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