CHARLOTTETOWN – A Charlottetown man who struck his infant son in the face with a baby bottle and fractured three of the child’s ribs has been sentenced to 12 months in jail.
Robert Andrew Gariepy appeared in P.E.I. Supreme Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to assault causing bodily harm.
In an agreed statement of facts read into the record last fall, Gariepy was alone with his five-month-old son at a residence in Milton on the night of the assault.
Gariepy was overtired and became frustrated when the infant wouldn’t take his bottle.
He struck the infant twice in the face with the bottle, leaving a mark, then squeezed the child when it began to cry, fracturing his ribs.
He took the child to the hospital, claiming the baby was injured in his Jolly Jumper, but police were notified.
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