A former child abuse investigator for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families was arrested this week and now faces child abuse charges herself after an infant in her foster care suffered serious head injuries late last year.
Margaret Bottone, 52, of Middlebury, was arrested Tuesday and charged with four offenses, including felony first-degree assault and risk of injury to a child, court records show.
In early December, the baby boy suffered three skull fractures, seizures and bleeding on his brain and in his eye — injuries that a series of doctors independently concluded could only have been caused by “significant shaking” and traumatic injury in the 24 hours before he was hospitalized, according to court records.