Man kicked, punched and threw baby ‘like a toy’

A teenage mother watched helplessly as her partner slapped, kicked, punched and threw her baby around an apartment as if the 10-month-old was a toy.

“It was the most incredibly difficult thing to go through,” the 19-year-old mother told Ennis Circuit Court yesterday. “I knew he was hurting the child and I couldn’t do anything about it.”

Over a three-week period the baby’s injuries included: