FERNDALE, Wash. — A Ferndale man convicted of critically injuring his infant son has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
A social worker from Seattle Children’s Hospital called Ferndale police in January 2017 to report that Evaristo Mendez’s 5-month-old son had several serious medical conditions, that a doctor deemed were not accidental.
Mendez told police he pushed his child “harder than he meant to” when the boy was in a bouncy seat, and the baby hit his head multiple times.
He later said he pushed the baby again and he was thrown across the room.
The mother came home not long after and took the infant to the hospital when he would not stop throwing up.