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INFANT ABUSER SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS

(Connersville, IN)--A Connersville father has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for abusing his own infant son.  28-year-old Michael Mengedoht was convicted of neglect of a dependent causing serious bodily injury.  In August of last year, the boy, who was just two weeks old, was taken to Reid Health in Connersville with multiple traumatic injuries that included broken bones.  The baby’s mother, Brittany Mengedoht, is set to go on trial in December.  In social media posts just after the incident, she said that she was a good mother and then asked if anybody was selling mice.