Thrusday, December 24, 1998
Man charged with raping girlfriend, son
BY TANYA BRICKING
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A Riverside man arrested Wednesday is accused of raping his live-in girlfriend and the woman's 22-month-old son.
Shawn Garrison, 23, is a “dominating, controlling man” who beat up his girlfriend, tortured her son and tried to cover up the abuse, Cincin nati Police Officer Michael Miller said.
The boy's mother took him to doctors in early December because he was vomiting and running a fever. Mr. Garrison allowed a doctor to misdiagnose the boy's condition by concealing information, court documents say.
“He kept explaining away the illness, and she bought into it,” Officer Miller said of the couple.
Doctors, however, concluded the boy had been sodomized. He suffered internal injuries, cracked ribs and a broken shoulder in the Dec. 4 attack, police said.
In interviewing the mother, police say they learned of more abuse. The woman told police that on Oct. 31 Mr. Garrison punched her in the head, ripped off her shirt, threw her onto a table, bloodied her nose and lips and raped her.
Police arrested Mr. Garrison at about 4:50 a.m. Wednesday at his mother's home in Price Hill. They charged him with assault and rape against his girlfriend and with child abuse, felonious assault and rape involving the 22-month-old boy.
Mr. Garrison is expected to be arraigned today in Hamilton County Municipal Court. A judge will set his bond and issue a date for his grand jury hearing.
The boy underwent surgery Tuesday at Children's Hospital Medical Center for internal injuries. He is expected to fully recover.
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