COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A Union City man was sentenced in Branch County Circuit Court on Monday after entering guilty pleas to charges of attempted second degree child abuse and third degree fleeing and eluding.
27-year-old Kyle Santiago Arrasmith was ordered to serve 11 months in the Branch County Jail. He was placed on probation for two years.
He was arrested March 11 after he tried to flee from a Union City Police Officer who tried to stop him for an equipment violation. The pursuit ended when Arrasmith’s vehicle crashed in the area of Girard and Arborgast Roads.
The child abuse charge was filed after an investigation by the Branch County Sheriff’s Department into January incidents involving his four month old daughter.
According to court documents, hospital x-rays showed the infant suffered a fractured right arm as well as healing leg fractures after she had been brought into the hospital for a bump to the arm.
Documents also indicate the defendant admitted to investigators that he squeezed the child to hard when he took her out of a bassinet.
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