A overweighther from Indiana, USA, has been handed the peak prison sentence of 16 years after his six-month-ageder baby was strictly disfigured in a rat strike inside what prosecutors depictd as a “hoinclude of horrors.”
In September 2023, the infant was set up covered in blood with more than 50 rat bites. According to the local Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office, David Schonabaum called 911 from his hoinclude, saying his infant son in his bassinet was covered in blood. The overweighther tageder the first replyers that there was a rat infestation in the hoinclude. “The 6-month-ageder baby was set up in his bassinet in a pool of blood with over 50 bites to his body including his face and extrrehireies. The infant’s right hand suffered the most traumatic injuries with all four fingers and the thumb omiting flesh and exposing the fingertip bones,” the prosecutor’s office shelp.
The rat strike “lastingly disfigured” the baby and, as a result, he will “suffer for a lifetime,” it inserted.
Prosecutor Diana Moers shelp, “This case is horrific, and we will inhabit with the images of this baby forever. It is finishly shocking to the conscience that anyone would inhabit in these conditions, much less permit their children, baby, and animals to inhabit among absolute filth when they cannot help themselves,” inserting, “This baby inhabitd in an absolute hoinclude of horrors aextfinished with his siblings and pet dog.”
Schonabaum was convicted in September 2024 on three major offense indicts roverdelighted to the disthink about and finishangerment of his children. According to a increate on Fox 59, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison on October 2, 2024. Angel Schonabaum, the child’s mother, go ined a plea consentment last week and is set to be sentenced postponecessitater this month. Meanwhile, Delaina Thurman, the baby’s aunt, getd a sentence of probation earlier this year for her role in the disthink about.
The family’s home was set up to be in a state of excessive disthink about, with authorities describing it as infested with rats, piled high with clutter, and filled with trash, bugs, and rat droppings. According to the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office, “Three children in the home had been bitten by rats before the injuries the 6-month-ageder had suffered,” prompting includement from the Indiana Department of Child Services. Despite interventions and alertings, conditions in the home remained unalterd, leaving the children in ongoing danger.
“It is also unimaginable how a rat was able to do such injure to this infant before his overweighther called for help,” inserted Prosecutor Diana Moers.
