Infant left fighting for life after mom’s fiancé dropped him on head and squeezed him to stop crying: cops

A Missouri babe was near fighting for his life aft his mom’s fiancé says he dropped him connected his caput — past squeezed him successful a bearhug to effort to extremity him from crying, according to cops and his dad.

Heartbreaking photos show 10-month-old Waylon attached to tubes aft suffering 2 encephalon bleeds and a collapsed lung aft he was rushed unconscious to a Kansas City hospital.

“He has fundamentally been reset to a newborn,” his dad, Tyler Burbridge, told KY3 on Thursday.

Even now he is location from a achy six-week enactment astatine nan hospital, “he tin hardly assistance his caput up,” nan dada said. “He’s going to person to person a batch of beingness therapy,” he said.

The mom’s boyfriend, Jordan Boggess, 28, was arrested connected a felony kid maltreatment complaint aft allegedly admitting to dropping nan baby, but calling it an accident, according to a probable origin affidavit.

Boggess said nan boy’s mom, Bessie McCamish, had near him successful a babe jumper connected Sept. 14 to spell to nan bath erstwhile he picked him up and “began to flip him successful nan air” to “comfort” him, nan affidavit said.

The 2nd clip he threw him, “the kid fell connected his head,” Boggess allegedly told investigators, blaming it connected having “sweaty hands.”

“Jordan past admitted aft nan kid fell connected nan level he panicked and ‘bear hugged’ nan kid ‘a small hard’ until he stopped screaming,” nan affidavit said.

“Jordan was asked if it was tight and he said yes. Jordan admitted he mightiness person wounded him erstwhile he squeezed him.”

Doctors later confirmed that Waylon had suffered “abusive caput trauma” arsenic good arsenic beingness abuse, according to Law & Crime.

“He fundamentally took my son’s life,” nan boy’s dad, Burbridge, told KY3. “He took my son’s future. You don’t flip a babe into nan air.”

The infant’s mother, meanwhile, told nan outlet that nan family’s “main attraction is connected Waylon connected him recovering and connected him striving to get stronger!”

Boggess is owed successful tribunal connected Dec. 13.