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BY RUTHANN ROBINSON
Times Staff Writer | Saturday, May 22, 2004 | (No comments posted.)
CROWN POINT -- A man charged with biting his girlfriend's 2-year-old boy allegedly told police "it served him right."
Jacob D. Fernandez, 21, 10851 Miami St., Crown Point, is charged with battery and faces a maximum of three years in prison if convicted.
The boy's mother took her son to Methodist Hospitals Southlake Campus in Merrillville on March 25 because he suffered from fever, diarrhea and weight loss, according to court records.
Doctors there noticed what appeared to be a human bite on his right arm. At first, the boy's mother said a 4-year-old bit her son, but when doctors saw the bite mark was too large to be from a child, she recanted. The woman told doctors Fernandez bit her son "while having a nightmare," an affidavit states.
The woman said the little boy awoke early March 22 and began playing in the living room. She said she punished him by spanking him on his bottom, then put him in bed between her and Fernandez. The boy woke his mom up again eating while graham crackers he found on a shelf in the bedroom.
She said she spanked him again and returned him to the bed. She woke up a third time because the toddler was yelling, "Ow. Ow. Ow."
The woman said she saw Fernandez biting the boy's arm so she hit Fernandez on the head to get him to stop. When police questioned Fernandez he initially told the same story, but then admitted he bit the boy in anger, the report states.
According to the affidavit: "He stated he was not remorseful or sorry for biting (the toddler) and that immediately after he had bitten him he stated that he felt as though 'it served him (the boy) right.'"
Ruthann Robinson can be reached at rrobinson@nwitimes.com or (219) 662-5331
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