Richard A. Root
Posted on 01/06/2018 11:41:38 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Richard A. Root caused more than 20 broken bones in the infant, along with a brain bleed.
Oshkosh, WI - A man who severely beat his two-month-old daughter in March, causing more than 20 broken bones and bleeding on the brain, was just sentenced after both the defense and prosecution argued against prison time.
Richard A. Root, 21, of Oshkosh, pleaded no contest to a charge of child neglect resulting in great bodily harm in Winnebago County Court in August, and was found guilty, according to WGBA.
He had originally been charged with child abuse, recklessly causing great harm.
"My daughter means everything to me. I'm her father and I'm supposed to be her protector, but I let her down." Root said at his sentencing. "I let myself down, my family down, my wife down, but most importantly, this little girl."
Root was sentenced by Winnebago County Circuit Judge Thomas Gritton to six months in jail and seven years of probation, and he ordered Root to keep a job or attend school full time, to undergo counseling, and to not have or use alcohol or drugs.
Root's defense attorney, Jeff Oswald, and Assistant District Attorney Eric Sparr both argued against putting Root in prison.
They said that they balanced the seriousness of the crime against positive things Roots has done since, like parenting classes, counseling, and a show of remorse, according to WGBA.
In March, the infant's mother was at work while the baby was in Root's care, according to court records.
The injuries occurred when Root shook the baby, asked her why she was crying, and knelt on her legs while changing her diaper, according to court records. He told police he was stressed and hadn't gotten enough sleep, according to The Northwestern.
Root called the mother after the incident and told her something was wrong with the baby. When she returned home, they both took the baby to the hospital.
Doctors discovered the baby girl had more than 20 broken bones to her ribs, legs, and arms, multiple brain bleeds, and bruises to her face and head.
The baby was flown to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where she was treated and later released to a family member, according to The Northwestern.
In an interview with police, Root admitted to causing his daughter's injuries, and demonstrated his actions on a doll.
The mother was not charged with a crime.
Root could have faced a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. He is also not to have contact with his daughter, unless that contact is approved.
I would accept a "slap on the wrist" as punishment - with the proviso that slap be hard enough to break 20 bones in him.
Richard A. Root
bastard
Send him to my house he will wish he was never born I work miracles with a neon light transformer
Richard A. Root
“I’m her father and I’m supposed to be her protector, but I let her down.”
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Nah, just send him to a stockyard and geld him.
Problem solved.
Lets just make him Chuck Norris’ sparring partner, lol lol lol
Winnebago County Circuit Judge Thomas Gritton
Moms are more clever, they smother the baby sleeping with them and then claim SIDS. Then they have gotten rid of their baby AND they get to be the victim too.
I suspect we'll be seeing this ignorant animal in the justice system again.
I pray the baby survives.
Vigilante justice?
He doesn't say her name. He's distancing himself from her.
He's going to do it again. And that time it might just be fatal.
Would, being made Chuck Norris’ sparing partner be harsh enough?
pleaded no contest to a charge of child neglect resulting in great bodily harm
This is a case of a da and judge who care more about convictions and not justice. He should be in prison for 10 years, but that would have required serious charges like CHILD ABUSE and a trial, judges and DAs don’t like those because they actually require them to WORK.
So f he’d killed her but was “remorseful” I guess he would have walked free too
These jerks need to serve time in jail for the heinous crime of ignoring a heinous crime (which, with almost 100% certainty, will be repeated by the so-called father again and again).
The recent slap-on-the-wrist list of murderers, rapists, child abusers, killer-cops, SWAT-team murderers, and infant attackers just keeps getting longer and longer.
Society needs a massive enema to clean itself of the criminals and their judicial enablers.
Muslim convert? Preliminary to an honor killing when she gets older?
I can’t imagine how horribly he was abusing this child to cause all of those injuries. This did not happen because he ‘lost it’ once and hit the child (which would still be a jail sentence in my view). He had to have hit this child very hard, and repeatedly, and it’s a miracle the child is alive. When you do this, you have given up he right to be that child’s parent - to say the very least. Those injuries were so extensive such that the difference between him killing or not killing that infant is very, very small, and this should be looked at as attempted murder.
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