Marine accused of assaulting infant twins

Marine accused of assaulting infant daughter
FOX 13
by Steve Kiggins
Reporter
November 18, 2013

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — A father in Kitsap County is accused of assaulting his 3-month-old daughter so badly that she was hospitalized with shaken baby syndrome. Investigators say the little girl’s twin brother suffered bruises and a broken bone.

Police said Monday that 28-year-old Colin Arthur admitted to mistreating his infant twins for more than a month. Arthur was arrested at the hospital. Arthur is on active-duty as a U.S. Marine.

“I think it’s too bad,” neighbor Betty Juneau said with a sigh.

Juneau lives right next door to where police say Arthur violently shook his infant daughter.

“It’s heartbreaking to know that it’s happening, but it is happening too much anyways,” added Juneau.

Police reports say Arthur’s wife rushed the little girl to the hospital after she noticed the baby was lethargic and that’s when doctors found bleeding on her brain.

“We found probability of a shaken baby involving this 3-month-old who is a twin; the other twin is a boy,” said deputy Scott Wilson of the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. “He came into the picture a little later as a follow-on investigation occurred looking into the family situation, and doctors realized he, too, had some injuries.”
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