Dad gets 11 years for brain damage to son

July 30, 2019 at 2:46p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Eric Pendland received the maximum, 11-year sentence for violently shaking his infant son and leaving him with permanent brain damage.

The first emotions Pendland showed going to trial for abusing Eric Pendland Jr., then 3 months old, was to hang his head as Mahoning County Judge Anthony Donofrio read his sentence, then burst out screaming.

“This is bull! … I never hurt my child!” he bellowed, as deputies dragged him from the courtroom.

Jurors quickly found Pendland guilty on two felony counts of child endangering during his June trial.

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