A 22-year-old father has been sentenced to three years imprisonment after abusing his six-week old baby, resulting in 12 broken bones.
Gatekeepers News reports that Jack Heslip abused the boy ‘roughly, probably in temper’ after the newborn came home from hospital in 2018 – and the court heard he admitted he ‘may’ have dropped the baby.
The child suffered fractures to the right thigh bone, lower right and left legs, left and right collarbones, at least four ribs along with left and right wrists.
He has now been taken into care and has been adopted.
The judge lifted an anonymity order on Heslip, who also has previous convictions for burglary and cannabis possession, so his crime could be made public.
At the time of the sentencing he was already in custody at HMP Berwyn, Wrexham, for another offence.
A court heard Heslip committed the crime when he was just 18 and was ‘an immature young man.’
Baby’s mother Jodie Hutchinson-Purcell, 23, now of Crawley, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, after the judge ruled she could have ‘done more’ to protect her child.
