DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A 26-year-old Des Moines father has been arrested and charged after investigators say he left his 4-month-old daughter with a serious head injury last year. Station WHO-TV reports that Zachary Wallace was arrested early Friday morning and booked into the Polk County Jail. He’s charged with child endangerment causing serious injury and neglect or abandonment of a dependent person. Police say medics were called to Wallace’s home on Aug. 10 for an unresponsive infant. Doctors say the baby was exhibiting seizure-like symptoms and had suffered a brain bleed. Wallace told investigators she fell from a bed, but doctors say she would not have been able to inflect such a severe injury on herself.
Des Moines father charged in serious injury of infant
Jan 22, 2021 | 12:25 PM
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