Man Throws Sofa Table At 2-Month-Old Boy's Head During Argument With Baby's Mother

A man threw a sofa table at a two-month-old boy’s head during an argument with the baby’s mother. The incident took place in San Antonio, Texas, on May 2.

According to an affidavit, the accused, identified as 31-year-old Gerald Pineda Jr., got into an argument with the unidentified mother of the baby. The argument escalated and the man started assaulting the woman. Suddenly, in a fit of rage, he picked up the sofa table and threw it at the woman. The table hit the woman and her infant son in the head. The relationship between the accused and the victim was not clear.

The woman immediately alerted the police. The officers arrived at the scene and rushed the baby to a nearby hospital. The boy, who suffered a large bump to his forehead, was treated at the hospital. The condition of the victim was not known.

Meanwhile, Pineda, who allegedly fled from the scene before police arrived, was taken into custody following a search. The charges levied against him were not known.

The incident comes two months after a Michigan man killed his girlfriend’s eight-month-old son by forcibly hitting the boy against a table. Police arrived at the home after receiving a call from the victim’s mother stating that she found her son lying unresponsive in his crib. The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to injuries. An autopsy revealed that the died from blunt force trauma to the head.

The man confessed to “grabbing the boy out of his crib by his leg and forcibly hitting Josiah against objects in the room such as a table and dresser.” He was charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse.

In another incident in March, a man in Ohio was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his toddler son. Jason Shorter walked into the police station with self-inflicted stab wounds and informed that he wanted to surrender for attempted murder and suicide. The officers found his infant son lying motionless in the trunk of his car that was parked in the visitor’s parking lot.