Post by WaTcHeR on Oct 23, 2006 16:25:30 GMT -5
Nicholas A. Minet
10.23.2006 - A Kansas City police officer was charged Friday with first-degree assault and abuse of a child after his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter was severely injured at a Clay County residence.
Officer Nicholas A. Minet, 28, is accused of critically injuring the child he was baby-sitting early Thursday. Authorities said Minet became angry when the child did not stop crying. He shook her and threw her down, according to court records filed Friday.
Minet, who joined the Police Department in 2003, has not appeared in court but was in custody Friday. His bond was set at $250,000. No defense attorney was listed in court documents.
The girl, whose name was not officially released, was listed in critical condition Friday at Children’s Mercy Hospital. Authorities said she suffered brain injuries and a skull fracture. Doctors performed emergency surgery to relieve pressure in the child’s brain. The child also had healing bruises on her forehead, back and neck, and an adult bite mark on her left leg, court records said.
According to the court documents, Minet was baby-sitting the girl Thursday morning at their home in the 400 block of Northwest 71st Terrace in Kansas City, North. Clay County Circuit Court records said the mother left her child with Minet that morning. The records said he was not the child’s father.
According to the documents, Minet told investigators that just before 8 a.m. the child was in an upstairs bedroom “crying hysterically.”
Minet said he picked up the child and tried to console her. The child did not stop crying.
Minet said he became frustrated and threw the child onto a mattress on the floor, according to the statement of probable cause released by officials. The child did not stop crying and, according to the statement, Minet said he left the room and returned several minutes later.
The child was still crying. Minet said he then picked up the girl and shook her, the documents said.
When the girlfriend returned home later that morning, the documents said, she found the toddler asleep on the bedroom floor.
The mother told police that she went to sleep with Minet in the living room.
About 3 p.m., Minet woke up the woman with the child in his arms and said, “She won’t wake up,” according to court documents.
The mother tried to wake the child but could not. She called 911.
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