{"id":358897,"date":"2026-09-28T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358897\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:02:10","slug":"new-york-man-charged-with-assault-after-infant-arrives-at-hospital-with-arm-fracture-broken-ribs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358897\/","title":{"rendered":"New York man charged with assault after infant arrives at hospital with arm fracture, broken ribs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York man charged with assault after infant arrives at hospital with arm fracture, broken ribs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb\" aria-label=\"Michael Cusanelli profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790611330_284_3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb_1780510546.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Michael Cusanelli\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>MADRID, N.Y. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A Northern New York man is facing charges after an infant was treated for serious injuries last week.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The St. Lawrence County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Shane Shortt of Madrid, NY, has been charged with 2nd-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child after a three-week-old child was brought to the Canton-Potsdam Hospital on Sept. 20 with eye injuries and a fractured arm.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The child had to be transferred to the Upstate Golisano Children&#8217;s Hospital in Syracuse, where staff found that the child also had 10 broken ribs.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Shortt was arraigned on the charges, and the judge ordered him to be released on probation. Shortt is not allowed to have any contact with the child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York man charged with assault after infant arrives at hospital with arm fracture, broken ribs MADRID, N.Y.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133579,211,10498,23072,1583,8301,133581,3663,8898,82667,9,11,26548,10,973,133577,133578,2311,133580,5384,6951],"class_list":["post-358897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-arm-fracture","tag-assault","tag-charge","tag-charges","tag-child","tag-child-abuse","tag-fractured-arm","tag-hospital","tag-infant","tag-madrid","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-man","tag-new-york-news","tag-office","tag-rib","tag-shane-shortt","tag-st-lawrence-county","tag-st-lawrence-county-sheriff","tag-syracuse","tag-wptz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}