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Stabbed baby remains in serious condition, father charged
A baby stabbed by his father in Gilbert Park Saturday afternoon is suffering from extensive injuries to his head and will likely require surgery.
The child's 23-year-old father, whose name has not yet been released, has been charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and two counts of failing to comply with a restraining order.
The baby, an eight-month-old, is still in hospital in stable but serious condition. Police wouldn't offer exact details of his injuries but say he will likely need surgery and is expected to need medical care for some time.
Winnipeg police released more details about the incident that has left investigators and Gilbert Park residents shaken.
It appears that a verbal dispute inside the woman's home started around 4 p.m. and escalated when the man swung a metal object at the 29-year-old woman, who was holding her baby.
Police wouldn't say what the object was, only that it was metal, sharp and not something normally used as a weapon.
The couple emerged from the home and continued fighting over the child and by that time it appears neighbours had called 911.
"I saw a lot of blood," said a woman named Maranda Saturday evening as she watched paramedics working on the child behind yellow police tape. "We saw a baby with a lot of blood... the baby's face was just covered. Police got here before the paramedics. The police had to pull them apart to get to the baby."
The baby, stained with blood and lying still with eyes closed, was lifted off the grass of the boulevard on Gilbert Avenue and tenderly put onto a stretcher by a paramedic. The child was taken away by ambulance.
A woman and a bare-chested man wearing blood-stained pants, whom area residents identified as the parents of the child, were taken away in police cruisers. The man had been yelling about the baby being stabbed in the face, neighbours said.
The common-law couple are the baby's biological parents and police say there is a history of domestic violence. The father is charged with violating two court orders -- one mandating that he not have contact with the child's mother and another barring him from the Gilbert Park home.
Police also saw both parents appeared to have been drinking Saturday afternoon.
It's been just less than three weeks since a 14-month-old baby was beaten in Gilbert Park, her head knocked on the sidewalk by a woman. Vanessa Houle suffered scrapes and bruising, but no broken bones or serious injuries in that attack.
"To be sitting here talking about another individual...it's still a shock to us," said Const. Jason Michalyshen.
He said police are called frequently to Gilbert Park but he said police would not want to paint it as a problem area.
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