New rule: Unemployed drifters who are charged with gratuitous child abuse no longer get to use Roman numerals in their names.The rule begins immediately with Edward E. St. Amant III.As the P-I
reports this 39-year-old charmer was just charged with second-degree assault of a child, after he, his girlfriend and her four-week-old baby showed up at Seattle Children’s Hospital on May 19.Staff at the hospital quickly determined the boy had a broken arm and shoulder. Further tests showed both the boy’s legs had been broken in several places; an older fracture to the month-old child’s left leg had already begun to knit.St. Amant apparently told doctors that he heard a “pop” when he picked up the kid, but that he didn’t cry or appear in pain. That scenario, however, was quickly debunked when the old injuries were found and when a doctor determined that it would have taken a jerking, twisting motion in order to create the kind of injuries that were found on the baby.St. Amant, who apparently is somewhat new to town and lives with his girlfriend at a Aurora Avenue motel is otherwise homeless and unemployed.If convicted, he’ll need to go ahead and remove the “St.” from his name as well.Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.
