Man who assaulted baby daughter sent to prison for five years

NANAIMO — A young father will spend the next five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting his baby daughter and causing her lifelong injuries.

B. C. Supreme Court Judge Robin Baird heard in a Nanaimo courtroom that the assaults on the girl, identified only as M. C., began in February 2013 by her now 24- year- old father.

Her injuries were identified when she was admitted to hospital and found to be suffering from skull fractures, a brain injury, fractured bones and bleeding on the brain.

Court heard the man, who can’t be identified because of a publication ban, was also a private in the military and confessed to police during an interview just days after his daughter’s hospitalization. Baird said posttraumatic epilepsy and cerebral palsy, blindness, developmental delays and seizures are some of the results the toddler must now face.