SIDNEY — The man who beat his 6-week-old daughter, and her 2-year-old brother in May, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Tuesday in Shelby County Common Pleas Court.
Allen Daniels, 21, of Sidney, apologized in court on Tuesday and said he will take this time to become a model citizen.
Daniels was given seven years in prison for one count of felonious assault, and 180 days for one count of assault. That time will run concurrently. Upon his release from prison he will have to serve a mandatory three years of community control. He was also given 159 days of credit for the time he has spent in jail since the incident in May.
The original 911 call was placed by the children’s mother, Brooke Schutte, to the Sidney Police Department at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 11. She said a baby was not breathing at her residence at 1135 Hilltop Ave., Apt. F. First responders administered CPR to the infant and were able to revive her.
The indictment accused Daniels of striking his daughter in the head with his fist and squeezing her head with his hand causing a skull fracture and bleeding on the brain. He was also accused of punching his daughter’s 2-year-old brother in the face, causing him to be hospitalized.
It was said in court Tuesday, the now 6-month-old, has good days and bad days. She had multiple surgeries and will have to deal with health issues the rest of her life. When she was originally hospitalized she was given less than 24 hours to live.
The child’s mother, Schutte, was sentenced in September to serve 45 days in jail on one count of attempted child endangerment, a felony of the fourth degree. She was originally charged with one count of child endangerment after failing to obtain proper medical treatment for the baby after she was injured from abusive behavior. She was also ordered to complete five years of community control, and mental health and parental counseling.
Shelby County Prosecutor Tim Sell said this was one of the worse cases of child abuse he has ever seen, and probably the worst the court has ever seen.
