Baby Suffers Fractured Skull After 'Frustrated' Father Slams Girl's Head Against Countertop While Feeding Her

A man was sentenced to 26 months in prison Wednesday for slamming his baby daughter's head on a countertop, resulting in a fractured skull.

A court in the U.K. heard that 31-year-old Lucy Bearman woke up one day to her baby’s unusual cries and noticed a lump on her head. She then noticed her husband, 29-year-old Robin Bearman, crying. When confronted, Robin said he “accidentally caught her head with a cupboard door.” The baby was rushed to a nearby hospital and an examination revealed that she had a fractured skull. This happened in 2017. The age of the baby was not known.

Recalling the incident, Lucy said, “My thoughts were that it was not a massively obvious lump. I would have driven her to hospital, my initial feeling was that calling 999 was a massive overreaction to what was in front of me. Initially I had a sense of confusion about what had happened. He acted it out. For months he acted it out, over and over again every time he was asked what had happened.”

A few months later, Robin admitted to slamming her to a countertop out of frustration while feeding her and soon after the pair split. The man was sentenced to imprisonment Wednesday and banned from seeing Lucy and her children for the next five years. The exact date of the incident was not known.

Meanwhile, speaking after the hearing, Lucy said, “I wanted nothing more for my girls than a safe and loving father. The day it happened things had never been better. We were a happy family. I still don't know why it happened and why he told me those lies. He destroyed everything.”

“I think the judge was really fair. I always said whatever happens with the sentence will be the right thing,” she added.