PORTLAND (WGME) — A woman, who says she’s the grandmother of an injured infant, says the child is improving, and that what her father did was no accident.
19-year-old Neil Lagasse is charged with aggravated assault.
Investigators say he brought his injured, 11-week-old daughter to Waldo County General Hospital Friday night for choking.
According to court documents, doctors noticed more injuries, and called police.
Deputies say Lagasse admitted to sticking his finger deep inside the baby’s throat to make her stop crying, and that he grabbed her aggressively under her arms, pulling her swing, breaking her ribs.
CBS 13 spoke with a woman who says she’s that baby’s grandmother.
She says
She said her daughter and Neil Lagasse were living at her house when the assaults happened, but he was alone with the baby.
“He didn’t lose control three times on accident,” Chrissy Spears-Myers said. “He didn’t feel bad after the first time, he didn’t feel bad after the second time, so you know, we think that there’s just something sadistic maybe even sadist about him.”
Spears-Myers says she wished Lagasse had been charged with attempted murder since the baby’s airway was blocked.
Lagasse is still behind bars.
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