Woman Who Broke Infant's Arms in Oak Creek Daycare Sentenced

OAK CREEK, WI — A 35-year-old Oak Creek woman has been sentenced for her role in breaking the arms of a 5-month old infant at an Oak Creek day care.

Stephanie McPherson had been charged with felony child abuse-recklessly causing harm in November 2016 for her role in the child abuse case.

According to court documents, McPherson has been sentenced to probation for three years.

According to her criminal complaint, on October 3, 2016, the baby's mother, Angela Hall, observed that every time her baby's arms were touched, her daughter cried out in pain.

Her criminal complaint stated that she took her daughter to Children's Hospital, where it was discovered that she had two bone fractures in her arms.

When police investigated, they learned that McPherson, who was at the Children of America Daycare in Oak Creek, had been playing with the baby in a rocking chair and had been engaged in physical actions, bending and twisting the infant, her criminal complaint stated.

According to the parents, the baby hadn't fully recovered earlier this year.

“As you can imagine, this is every parent’s worst nightmare — to drop off your child at day care and then pick up your child and have to find out that something terrible has happened,” said Attorney Jason Abraham, in a FOX 6 report.

When investigators told McPherson that these actions likely injured the child, she stated that "I guess I did it too hard and didn't realize it," according to her criminal complaint.

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