Father Charged After 5-Month-Old Girl Was Left Fighting for Life in Coma - The Epoch Times

A father from Indiana has been charged after he allegedly shook his 5-month-old daughter and left her fighting for her life in a coma, according to police.

Dakota Moran, 21, was charged with level three felony battery resulting in serious bodily injury after his daughter Caroline Ann Moran was rushed to the hospital in a critical condition and placed in an induced coma on Wednesday, March 14, reported WANE.

Fort Wayne police responded to a call at a home in the 2300 block of South Calhoun Street, just before 12 p.m. on March 14. When they arrived, police found the infant not breathing and overheard Moran say, “I shook her but after she stopped breathing,” reported the news station, citing the probable cause affidavit. They said Moran was acting strange at the time.

Caroline was in her father’s care at the time of the incident. Moran told police that the baby’s mother had left for work around 8:30 a.m. that morning and that the baby was “healthy and acting normal.” Around 11 a.m., Caroline woke up and started crying like she was in pain. He noticed she was having trouble breathing. Her legs were locked and she went stiff before she started to shake, according to the probable cause affidavit, reported the news station.

Moran told police he tried to bounce his daughter back and forth to get her to breathe. He then asked a friend, who was visiting at the time, to call emergency services. He added that he was pressing the baby’s belly and chest to help her to breathe.

“I didn’t hurt my daughter intentionally if that is what you guys are thinking,” Moran said in the affidavit, reported the news station.

“Y’all are gonna have to kill me if your gonna take me to jail for something I didn’t do because I didn’t mean to [expletive] do it. Y’all are going to have to kill me if my daughter dies. I didn’t mean to do anything to her. I just tried to help her out,” he added.

Eventually, during police questioning, Moran admitted that he did shake the baby that day — approximately 30 to 60 minutes prior to the baby waking up in medical distress, according to the probable cause affidavit.

“I did shake her, but not hard,” the affidavit read, reported WANE.

“I didn’t shake her hard at all. I just don’t want to get in trouble. I love my daughter. I didn’t meant to hurt her. I didn’t think I hurt her, but I didn’t think I shook her that hard either. I didn’t shake her any harder than I would shake my kitten because you can hurt kittens the same way.”

Moran added that he “didn’t mean to do it and said he didn’t know his own strength,” police said.

He also told police that it was hard being a father and he was not used to being one. He added that a few days prior, he had opened the bathroom door so hard that a mirror broke because he had heard his daughter crying, reported the news station, citing the affidavit.

Doctors said the child’s brain was bleeding as a result of trauma and they also found another brain bleed that was 2 to 3 weeks old.

Little Caroline’s grandmother Jamie Lucas said she was devastated that her granddaughter is in a critical condition, reported WPTA.

“They had to remove part of her skull to relieve blood on her brain, she had multiple bleeds on her brain, she can’t breathe on her own. She’s on a ventilator, she’s got a neck brace,” she told the news station.

Lucas said she had feared something would happen to her granddaughter and tried notifying Child Protective Services about her concerns.

“Knew this was going to happen. I reported it, CPS did nothing about it and… if he’s beating on her, it’s only a matter of time before he started beating on my granddaughter. And there’s the proof right there.”

Lucas said she does not know whether Caroline would be able to recover.

“Do they think that she will recover? It’s up to her at this point. They can’t give me any word on that. They don’t know if she’s going to have brain damage. They don’t know,” she added.

Fort Wayne Police Officer Michael Joyner said it was not easy when dealing with abused children.

“When you’re dealing with defenseless individuals, it just hits home for us because we have children, too,” he told the news station.

Moran appeared in court on Friday, March 16. No further details have been released by police.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Following a lifetime of preparation and four years of scrupulous training, Douglas Chan had finally opened the letter informing him where he would have an opportunity to begin his career in psychiatry.

But Chan was still filled with anticipation and anxiousness as he waited for one more moment of truth: Where would Taylor Ford, his girlfriend studying pediatrics, be doing her own medical residency? Would the two of them be placed close together?

"I couldn't breathe," Chan told the Deseret News. "I was super nervous she wasn't going to say Albuquerque, then she did and we started crying."

"We're just happy we're in the same town to make it work," added Ford, who with Chan will undergo residency at the University of New Mexico.

The couple's rejoicing after learning their fates was a rewarding moment among a sea of celebration on campus Friday by 99 soon-to-be graduates of the University of Utah's School of Medicine, who earned residency placements with 67 health organizations in 32 states.

"It's surreal, the amount of work that we've done," said Jenn Nhan, co-president of the medical school's student government and a pediatrics major who learned Friday that she had earned a placement with her top choice, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. "You get so used to the grind, and to come out of it at the end, it's very refreshing."

A tangible mixture of nerves and anticipation filled the Rice-Eccles Stadium reception room overseeing the Salt Lake skyline, where students who had secured a residency placement had gathered to find out their destinations at the same time — a ritual known as "Match Day."

The night before, Nhan said, "I don't think any one of us slept."

Before finding out their placements, students and their anxious family members waited patiently while medical school faculty and alumni gave short speeches congratulating them on their hard-earned progress and urging them forward.

"It can be very intimidating as a student to take that next leap of faith into a residential program," said Dr. Bryan Stone, president of the University of Utah School of Medicine Alumni Association. "What you have learned here will not fail you."

The nervous energy in the room erupted into shouts, cheers and tearful hugs as students opened their letters.

"From my first moment of wanting to be a doctor until now, this is the moment that made everything worth it," said Parvathi Radhakrishnan, who will be completing an internal medicine residency at Brown University.

"Pretty much the only thing I could focus on was getting that letter and opening it," Radhakrishnan said, joking, "I've never been so frustrated with an envelope before."

She said she and her boyfriend, fellow U. student Anish Bhatnagar, submitted around 300 combinations of application preferences in an effort to match up with the right residency opportunities while not being forced to live far apart.

In the end, the couple received their No. 2 preference, with Bhatnagar landing a residency at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital less than an hour away from Brown.

"It was something we were really worried about," Bhatnagar said of keeping the residencies close together. "I'm so happy."

Bhatnagar's mother, Riti Bhatnagar, is a clinical dietician at the U. and has had the chance to see her son's personal growth up close as medical school has stretched him. She said she would miss her son and his girlfriend as they move across the country, but called their placements "a big achievement."

"I'm a proud mom," Riti Bhatnagar said. "I'm proud of the University of Utah."

Dane Barton held his toddler daughter as he explained the sacrifices he and his family made on the long path to securing a residency.

Barton spent numerous hours away from his wife and two children during medical school, he said, but the hard work paid off Friday when he found out he would soon be completing an orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Arizona.

"I've wanted to do this since I was 12," Barton said. "This has been 20 years in the making. It just feels like a dream."

University of Utah Health spokeswoman Suzanne Winchester explained in a release that "in the weeks leading up to Match Day, students completed an application process that included ranking their top choices for residency programs."

"Based on interviews and applications, those programs considered the students who picked them as their top selections. Then, if the preferred program accepts the student, it’s a match," Winchester said in a release.

Placements ranged from Missoula, Montana, and Boise, Idaho, to New York City and Washington, D.C., from hospitals in Colorado and Texas, to Kentucky and Florida. A handful even secured residencies at the U. itself. Winchester said more than a quarter of this year's graduates are staying in Utah.

Students leaving for residencies were doing so in 25 specialties, from radiology to general surgery to ophthalmology, while their stated reasons for which residencies they preferred were arguably even more diverse.

In all, 54 women and 45 men were matched into residencies.

Stone urged students who might miss out on their top preferences to understand that their own dedication to their profession will be the single greatest predictor of their future success.

"What is inside of you matters much more than what lies before you," he said.

Stone added that "for the well-prepared student, which you are, residency will fine tune you."

The uncertainty of the matching process all the way until the day when letters are opened can be emotionally draining, Nhan said.

"Matching's more exciting for us than graduating," she said. "It's just nerve-wracking."

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"I'm so proud of everyone in my class. They've worked so hard," she said. "It's culminated to here."

Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of University of Utah medical student Dane Barton. His surname is Barton, not Burton. The story also referred incorrectly to Riti Bhatnagar. Her first name is Riti, not Rita.

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NORMAN, Okla. — It was almost like a sudden gust of wind hit the floor at Lloyd Noble Center late Sunday afternoon. NCAA Tournament selection show host Greg Gumbel and Ernie Johnson reached the Os and right after Ohio State, there was Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma knows where it stands

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Turner Sports analyst Charles Barkley didn’t hold back. When the meeting with Rhode Island was announced he said: “I don’t think they deserve to be in the (NCAA) Tournament and they’re gonna lose to Rhode Island.”

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The Sooners and Rams have never met.

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