Father charged with murder after he claimed his 5-week-old baby boy died choking on formula
A Missouri man has been charged in the death of his infant son after allegedly telling police the boy choked on formula.
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Dustin Eugene Mason, 25, stands accused of one count of murder in the second degree for the Oct. 28, 2022, death of his child, an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Law&Crime notes.
Deputies with the Butler County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the defendant’s residence on Mustang Lane in response to a 911 call about an unresponsive infant, the court document says. The boy’s mother, who had been out getting pizza, arrived home to find her boy “had quit breathing and was turning blue and lifeless.”
Tiffany Mason said her husband, the boy’s father, told her that he had been feeding their son a bottle when the child “started to choke on the baby formula and a few moments later blood started coming out of [his] mouth, his arms went limp and he stopped breathing.”
The baby boy, whose name is redacted in the affidavit, was given CPR and rushed to a nearby hospital. Then, after remaining unconscious for some 30 minutes, the boy was taken to a children’s hospital in St. Louis. He was placed on life support but succumbed to his injuries on Nov. 2, 2022.
Before the boy died, however, doctors at the children’s hospital in St. Louis determined the child had suffered abusive head trauma, including internal bleeding, hemorrhaging around his brain, direct brain injury, retinal hemorrhages, and possible rib fractures.
