Police say Joshua S. Orick, 23, threw his 7-week-old son head first into playpen for disturbing video game
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MUNCIE — Police say a Muncie man threw his infant son head-first into a playpen after the boy’s cries disturbed the man during his drag racing video game.
The 7-week-old baby was later flown via medical helicopter to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, where doctors determined he had suffered serious brain injuries.
Joshua Scott Orick, 23, 2808 S. Brotherton St., is preliminarily charged with neglect of a dependent, a Class B felony carrying a standard 10-year prison term.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the baby’s parents brought him to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital’s emergency room March 4 after he had been suffering seizures and had been “projectile vomiting” for two days. Neither Orick nor the child’s mother were immediately able to give an explanation for the baby’s condition.
The boy was then flown to Riley Hospital, where medical personnel determined the infant had suffered brain injuries due to “non-accidental trauma with an accelerated force that also caused the brain to be displaced in the skull by 3.1 millimeters, and he had subdural bleeding to the right side of the brain,” according to the report.
Interviewed by Muncie police Sgt. Linda Cook on Monday, the infant’s mother said they took their son to the hospital March 4 after he turned “ghost white” and began twitching on his left side the evening of March 2. Asked about Orick’s demeanor, the woman told Cook “that Joshua has a personality disorder where he is temperamental, gets upset, is hyper, and is an a**hole.”
Also interviewed by Cook on Monday, Orick at first “gave us (three) different versions of possibilities of how (his son) was injured,” but then allegedly admitted he “may have injured” the boy Feb. 27 while the child’s mother was out grocery shopping.
According to the report, Orick — who “said that he is addicted to video games” — said he was watching his son and playing a drag racing game on his tablet when the boy began crying for about one or one-and-a-half minutes. Cook told The Star Press Orick said the cries distracted him from his game, causing him to, according to the report, throw his tablet, which damaged the screen.
Contact reporter Andrew Walker at (765) 610-7260. Follow him on Twitter @AndrewWalkerT
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