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Father is indicted for baby’s death
; =a piratory sair concluded through pleaded with the courtto
—e _ ai failure a series of neurological forbid Kosair Children’s
and blood tests that every part of Hospital from removing
acing charge and fluid Issac’s brain had shut the machines that kept
of murder pooling down: both the upper _ his heart beating.
i" around brain, which controls Jefferson County Cir-
By Claire Galofaro his brain, thought and voluntary cuit Court Judge Judith
cgalofaro@courierjournal.com Juan Lopez according movement, and the McDonald-Burkman
The Courier-Journal Rosales to Jeffer- brain stem, the stalk of eventually sided with
son Coun- neural tissue that con- the hospital, allowing
A 25-year-old father, ty court filings. nects the spinal cord to doctors to terminate
whose brain-dead baby His father at first the brain and controls support.
launched a weeks-long told police he found the involuntary actions like Jefferson County
legal fight over life sup- infantshakingontheso- breathing and reflex. Coroner Barbara Weak-
port, was indicted fa, his eyes rolled back Kentucky law recog- ley-Jones said at the
Thursday on a murder in his head, though de- _nizes two definitions of time she was concerned
charge. nied knowing how he’d death. The firstis cardi- about determining the
Juan Alejandro Lo- been injured, according ac arrest, the second is precise brain injuries
pez Rosales had been tothe police report. But “total and irreversible that lead to the baby's
held in jail for six Lopezlateradmittedhe cessation of all brain death. Though the child
months on abuse hit the baby’s headona function, including the remained on life sup-
charges, awaiting anau- wall and the bathtub brainstemandthatsuch port, a dead brain will
topsy for his 2-month- several days earlier. He determination is made begin to decompose,
old baby, Issac Lopez, said considered seeking by at least two licensed making medical analy-
declared brain-dead medicaltreatmentearli- physicians.” sis difficult.
July 2. er but “abandoned ef- Issac was declared Lopez is facing the
Issac, born May 1, forts because the facili- dead on July 2. But the _ possibility of life in pris-
was admitted to Kosair ties asked too many the baby remained on on without the possibili-
Children’s Hospital on questions or they were life support for 23 days, _ ty of parole, or the death
June 29 with a broken too far away.” as his mother, Iveth Ya- penalty, if prosecutors
skull, rib fractures, res- Four doctors at Ko- neth Garcia-Menchaca, choose to seek it.
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