Parents locked up after baby son found with broken arm and fractured ribs

Luke Davis and Cylyna Fedynych tried to disguise the child’s injuries from visitors by wrapping him tightly in a blanket and giving him Calpol for the pain, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.

But social worker Lisa Tunney raised the alarm when she visited the pair’s home in Merridale Street West, Wolverhampton, in August 2015 and found that the infant could not move his right arm.

Asked why he was so tightly swaddled in a blanket, Davis told her that the baby ‘liked it’. Ms Tunney called an ambulance and X-rays at hospital revealed other injuries from a suspected series of assaults.

The couple, aged 19 and 18 at the time of the offences, had claimed that Fedynych had tumbled downstairs with the baby in her arms around a week before the social worker’s visit.

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But they were found guilty after a trial last month of causing or allowing the injuries to be inflicted. They had denied mistreating their child.

Judge Michael Challinor said: “The fracture of the baby’s arm was such that it would have been painful, causing him to scream out. It’s impossible to say which one of you caused the injuries and which one of you turned a blind eye.”

Dr Joanna Fairhurst, the paediatric consultant called in by West Midlands Police to assess the child’s injuries, concluded he had suffered fractures to his ribs on at least two separate occasions from ‘very significant force.’

The court heard the infant has since been adopted.

Defending Davis, now 21, of Merridale Street, Wolverhampton, Mr Christopher O’Gorman said Davis had suffered from problems in his emotional development since the age of 12.

Mr Kevin Grego, defending Fedynych, almost 20, said she suffered from an emotionally unstable personality disorder.

Davis, who was jailed, and Fedynych, who was detained in youth custody, will undergo 12 months’ supervision on their release.