In brief: Man accused of harming infant receives sentence
TACOMA – A 25-year-old Washington man accused of putting his 6-week-old daughter in a 10-degree freezer for about an hour to stop her crying was sentenced Friday to 16 years in prison.
Prosecutor Mark Lindquist says Tyler Deutsch pleaded guilty on Jan. 31 to first-degree assault for beating his infant daughter and putting her in the freezer. She has fully recovered, but the prosecutor calls the crime horrible and inexplicable.
Authorities say the child’s core temperature fell to 85 degrees in the freezer, after Deutsch put her there and then went to his bedroom and fell asleep. She also had a broken arm and leg and a head injury.
The mother, who had left the baby in his care, saw Deutsch pull her out of the freezer as she was returning home and called 911.
Teen, great-grandfather die in Oregon house fire
MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. – Douglas County sheriff’s officers say a 14-year-old boy and his 95-year-old great-grandfather have died in a house fire east of the southern Oregon community of Myrtle Creek.
The Register-Guard reported that homeowners identified as Larry and Naomi Brubaker escaped the fire, which was reported at about 4:30 a.m. Friday, but were treated for smoke inhalation.
Sheriff’s officers say 14-year-old Spencer Brubaker and 95-year-old Pitchlynn Harris died in the blaze at a doublewide mobile home.
Investigators say it is not suspicious.
Man burned in helicopter crash has first surgery
SEATTLE – A hospital official said the first surgery on a man who was burned when a helicopter crashed on his car in Seattle went very well.
Spokeswoman Susan Gregg of Harborview Medical Center said 38-year-old Richard Newman, of Seattle, is back in intensive care in serious condition after his surgery on Friday.
Newman has burns covering nearly 20 percent of his body on his back and arms.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating what happened in Tuesday’s crash, in which the helicopter pilot and the photographer working for KOMO-TV were killed.