COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — An Englewood man severely beat his girlfriend's 18-month-old son because the toddler wouldn't stop crying, prosecutors said Friday.
The boy is in critical condition at Comer Children's Hospital with a cracked skull, fractured ribs and internal bleeding, according to Assistant State's Attorney Erin Antonietti.
There's a good chance the child won't survive, Antonietti said.
"I may get in trouble for saying this, but, sir, you are a monster," Cook County Judge Adam Bourgeois told 28-year-old Dantis Porter in court Friday.
Porter had been babysitting while his girlfriend was at work on Tuesday, prosecutors said. When she returned to the couple's home in the 1100 block of West Marquette Road about 7:15 p.m., she found her son slumped over in his stroller.
Porter told police he beat the boy because he was angry the child wouldn't stop crying, Antonietti said.
Porter was charged with aggravated battery to a child causing permanent disability, and held without bail.
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