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Jacob Weesner
A Council Bluffs man has been charged with multiple counts of child endangerment after his 4-month-old child suffered brain damage.
Jacob Weesner, 23, was charged with one count of child endangerment on Nov. 6, but a second warrant was issued Wednesday charging him with suspicion of multiple acts of child endangerment, neglect or abandonment of a dependant person and willful injury.
An affidavit in support of the warrant stated Weesner's 4-month-old daughter was transported on Nov. 4. The affidavit indicated Weesner and his daughter were at home and she fell off the bed and was unresponsive. (It's either the bed or the bathtub.)
Medical staff told Council Bluffs police detectives that the girl was bleeding from two different spots on the brain, and the injuries were not consistent with a fall from the bed.
The child was transported to Children's Hospital in Omaha, and its staff also said the injuries were not consistent with falling off the bed, and she had two detached retinas. The doctors said the injuries were consistent with a baby who had been shaken.
The 4-month-old also was placed on a feeding tube because she suffered permanent brain damage and the inability to suck or swallow on her own. Reports indicated she also suffered a fracture to her right femur, seizures and two fractured ribs.
Detectives interviewed Weesner on Nov. 5, according to the affidavit, and he allegedly admitted to shaking his child "between two and six times." (during a span of three weeks)
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