A dad caused catastrophic and permanent brain damage to his own eight-week-old son after he violently shook the child, a court has heard.
Nicholas Bateman, 31, lied for years about how his son suffered the injuries, claiming his he had accidentally hit his head while being picked up. But once his trial started Bateman told the terrible truth – that he’d shaken the infant because he wouldn’t stop crying on March 9, 2018, reports Wales Online.
The child is now aged five and has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak, eat, or stand and cannot manage to sleep without being medicated, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard.
