A Cottonwood Heights man has been charged with abusing and killing his then-girlfriend’s daughter in early 2016.
The child, identified in court documents as S.M., was 1½ years old at the time of her death, which doctors believed was caused by abuse at the hands of 29-year-old Jake Don Jensen, according to charging documents.
A bone in each of the girl’s legs appeared to have been broken and healing, charges state, and she also had injuries on her head and eyes. She was born prematurely, charges say, leading to intraventricular hemorrhaging and cerebral palsy, which caused developmental delays and weakness in her left side.