Man gets prison term for causing brain injury to his infant son

Man gets prison term for causing brain injury to his infant son

WARREN — A 26-year-old Weathersfield man has been sentenced to five years in prison for causing a brain injury to his 21-day-old son by shaking him.

Christopher L. Lanning of Dogwood Street pleaded guilty Tuesdayto charges of felonious assault and endangering children in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Weathersfield police said Lanning was watching his son at his home when the incident occurred on Aug. 21, 2006.

The baby was sick that night after the shaking, so Lanning and the baby’s mother, who is from Youngstown, took the child to the hospital, said Weathersfield Police Chief Joseph Consiglio.

There, a doctor determined the infant was the victim of shaken baby syndrome, Consiglio said.

Trumbull County Children’s Services assisted with the case.

Lanning accepted a plea bargain in the case just before his trial was set to begin in the courtroom of Judge W. Wyatt McKay.