A 30-year-old Duluth man faces additional criminal charges based on allegations of abusing his 19-month-old child after being previously charged with causing injuries to his 6-week-old child in April.
Antonio Lemar Corwin, 30, was charged in April with 3rd-degree assault causing substantial bodily harm, malicious punishment of a child, assaulting a police officer, fleeing and obstruction after investigators learned of a 6-week-old child who had suffered injuries consistent with abuse.
Investigators say the child was brought to the emergency room by her parents. Doctors there discovered a right wrist fracture as well as a femur fracture. A physician that treated the child told investigators: “Each of these injuries alone are highly concerning for abuse; both being present at the same time and being present on opposite sides of the body, each raised the probability of infliction injury even more,” according to the charges filed against Corwin.
The child’s mother told investigators that she woke up around 4 a.m. and noted the victim was fine. When she woke again at 7:30 a.m., she asked Corwin to give a bottle to the child. Shortly after, she heard the child begin to cry louder. When the mother went to help Corwin, she said heard a clicking, suspected the child suffered a leg injury and then brought the child to the hospital.
