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Prosecutors: Father angry over cake kills 5-year-old son
By: Associated Press//June 27, 2019//
Listen to this articleMILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors say a Milwaukee father is accused of fatally punching his 5-year-old son because the boy had eaten some of the cheesecake he had gotten for Father’s Day.
Travis Stackhouse is charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the child’s death last Saturday. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the boy died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen.
A complaint says the 29-year-old father initially told police his son was injured after falling down the stairs. Paramedics didn’t think the boy’s injuries were consistent with a fall. Authorities say Stackhouse became angry his children were eating his cheesecake, went to a bar and returned about 2 a.m., at which time the mother of the child called 911.
Court records don’t list an attorney who could speak on the defendant’s behalf.
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