Auburn assault case trial re-scheduled

Trial has been re-scheduled to May 24 for Dotty Marie Reed, who is charged with first-degree assault of a child for allegedly assaulting a 9-month-old baby whom she was babysitting on May 20, 2010 in Auburn.

Trial has been re-scheduled to May 24 for Dotty Marie Reed, who is charged with first-degree assault of a child for allegedly assaulting a 9-month-old baby whom she was babysitting on May 20, 2010 in Auburn.

Reed, 19, had been scheduled trial March 24 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.

Prosecutors allege that Reed was babysitting the baby and his older sister at her home when she called 911 to report that the child was not waking up and would stop breathing when she laid him down. Arriving Valley Regional Fire Authority medics found the baby unresponsive and limp. He was airlifted to Seattle Children’s Hospital, where doctors diagnosed him with a subdural hematoma, a subarachnoid hemorrhage and retinal hemorrhaging, injuries that didn’t mesh with Reed’s claim that she’d only set him down on the floor too hard.

Prosecutors claim that only Reed could have caused injuries like those. Reed allegedly admitted to detectives that she’d been frustrated with the child for weeks because of his fussiness. She said it appeared that the child didn’t like her.