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Post Falls Child Abuser Gets 10 Years

A 27-year-old Post Falls man was sentenced to 10 years in prison -- two fixed and eight indeterminate -- for fracturing the leg of his fiancee's (Rebecca L. Mullin) 2-year-old son. Michael Robert Edinger was sentenced by Judge Lansing Haynes for felony injury to the child who was in Edinger's care at the time. After initially stating that the injury had been cause while he was playing with the boy, Edinger admitted that he had "snapped" while trying to change the boy's diaper. Edinger, according to a news release from Prosecutor Barry McHugh, said the boy was crying and being uncooperative. Edinger said he grabbed the boy's leg, twisted it, and slammed it to the floor. Full prosecutor's news release here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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