Man Catches His Partner Sexually Assaulting Their 16-Month-Old Son

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A woman was charged with sexually assaulting her 16-month-old son in an Illinois court on Thursday.

Michelle Tannehill, a police spokeswoman, said the U.S. Marshal's fugitive task force took 30-year-old Alyssa Waldon into custody after they found her in the 6600 block of West Dakin Street at the Dunning neighbourhood Wednesday afternoon.

During the hearing on Thursday, Assistant State’s Attorney David Mullner said the child’s father informed authorities after he walked into a room and saw Waldon sexually assaulting the toddler post a shower on Jan. 8, 2018, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The toddler was then taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital where he was examined.

Judge Stephanie K. Miller denied bail for Waldon and charged her with felony predatory criminal sexual assault. She is due back in court on Feb. 5, 2019.

In a similar incident, a woman was charged with sex abuse after her 2-year-old son died last Sunday. The toddler died two days after his mother, Kayla Nicole Thomas’ boyfriend informed police the boy was unresponsive after falling. However, forensic examination showed the boy died from extreme blunt force trauma to the head which was not caused by falling.

Describing the case as “horrific.” Police Chief Mark Sisson said the boy was killed by his mother’s boyfriend and that the toddler was also sexually assaulted by both of them, People reported.

While the woman was charged with “aggravated sexual battery, inanimate sexual penetration and possession of child pornography,” her boyfriend, Kayla Nicole Thomas, was charged with “forcible sodomy and production of child pornography involving a child younger than 15.”

In another incident of sexual assault, a man was charged with rape of a two-week-old baby in Ireland in October 2018. A detective from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the baby was admitted in intensive care after the incident that had left the infant with "a number of serious injuries,” the Independent reported.