http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/96397829.html<\/a><\/p>\r\nThe tragedy of the case is\u00a0not only that Michael Cramer\u00a0beat his son Matthew, inflicting traumatic brain injury on the baby. The tragedy is that the dead infant’s mother, Cramer’s father and his sister all came to the sentencing to plead to the judge to just let the defendant go home, not to jail.<\/p>\r\n
The baby. Matthew Cramer,\u00a0 was found with head trauma\u00a0Feb. 17, 2009\u00a0. That’s the day the , his father, was taking\u00a0 care of \u00a0him. The newborn went into a coma, and lingered in a comatose state for\u00a0six\u00a0months\u00a0because\u00a0Cramer wouldn’t agree to the hospital pulling life support.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Initially Cramer was charged with child abuse. But after posting bail he took off\u00a0 from Wisconsin to Illinois.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
A jury in Milwaukee County Circuit Court convicted Cramer of first-degree reckless homicide and bail jumping in April,<\/p>\r\n
Even at the\u00a0sentencing, Cramer continued to proclaim his innocence. He testified at his trial that he inadvertantly hurt his son while trying to resuscitate him during a sudden infant death syndrome spell.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
But experts testified that the baby’s bleeding around\u00a0the brain, his subdural\u00a0 hemorraging\u00a0and retinal bleeding weren’t consistent with Cramer’s story about his attempts to revive the infant.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Judge Kevin Marlens sentenced Cramer to 10\u00a0years and nine months in prison.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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