‘Frustrated’ babysitter arrested, accused of attempted murder of 4-month-old girl

Pat Reavy, KSL.com

MIDVALE, Utah (KSL.com) — A 4-month-old woman is hospitalized successful highly captious information and whitethorn not past aft constabulary opportunity her caput was intentionally smashed into nan area of a metallic doorway by a babysitter disappointment pinch her crying.

“There is an highly precocious chance that nan 4-month-old unfortunate will die,” Unified constabulary wrote successful nan babysitter’s booking affidavit. “The unfortunate has not improved and her encephalon activity is very flattened. Safe and Healthy Family doctors stated they are considering encephalon decease testing wrong nan adjacent time aliases two.”

Zachary Walton, 28, was booked into nan Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of attempted execution and 2 counts of aggravated kid abuse.

The incident happened Wednesday nighttime astatine nan Road Home shelter successful Midvale, 529 W. 7300 South, wherever nan woman lives pinch her mother. That night, nan mother was moving a DoorDash displacement while Walton, a family friend, babysat. Police opportunity Walton began watching nan woman astatine 11 a.m.

“Zachary stated astir 6 p.m. that nighttime he had go very frustrated. Zachary said his vexation was astir apt an 8 connected a 10 scale,” according to nan affidavit. “Zachary stated nan unfortunate would not extremity crying and he was already frustrated.”

Walton told constabulary that he decided to return nan woman to nan tile of nan building to effort and relieve stress. But while he was successful nan elevator, he said “he thought to himself, ‘How do I get her to unopen up?’ Zachary stated he saw nan area of nan elevator and while cradling her successful his near limb he smashed her caput into nan metallic area of nan elevator wherever nan elevator curves to nan sliding doors,” according to nan affidavit. “Zachary stated this only made nan unfortunate commencement to outcry harder.”

Police opportunity he past repeated nan action a 2nd clip utilizing “significant force.” At that point, nan babe stopped crying and Walton thought to himself, “What (have) I done?” nan apprehension study says.

By nan clip they reached nan roof, nan girl’s bosom had stopped and she was nary longer breathing. Surveillance video later reviewed by constabulary showed Walton “carrying nan 4-month-old limp unfortunate astir nan tile for astir 17 minutes while trying to rustle into her face,” nan affidavit states. “After an utmost magnitude of time, Zachary yet called nan child’s mother and stated nan kid was not breathing.”

At 7:51 p.m., 911 was called.