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| Protection Order Given To Toddler Against Step-Father |
| By dailyherald.com |
| Published: 12/01/2010 |
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A Cook County judge entered an emergency order of protection Tuesday on behalf of a toddler whose face was scalded last week after authorities say his stepfather Santiago Minjarez tried to stop the baby from crying by holding him upside down under hot running water. Citing the “immediate danger of further abuse,” Cook County Circuit Court Judge Joel Greenblatt issued the order which he extended to include the victim's mother and her two other children even through Minjarez received no prior notice of the hearing. Minjarez, 33, has been charged with aggravated battery to a child, a class X felony that carries a sentence of six to 30 years in prison upon conviction. Minjarez, who was on parole at the time of the incident, is being held at Stateville Correctional Center on a $200,000 bond. The baby was wearing a full-leg cast at the time, a result of a recent injury which is under investigation, prosecutors said. Minjarez's wife, the baby's mother, was not at the family's Rosemont apartment at the time of the scalding injury, police said. Read More. |
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Send him to my prison. I'll assign him the perrrrfect cell-mate!