N. Carolina father pleads guilty to abusing infant daughter

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to charges that he punched his infant daughter in the face and left her with broken bones.

The Winston-Salem Journal reports 26-year-old Michael Dion Coleman II pleaded guilty in Forsyth Superior Court to three counts of felony child abuse.

Coleman had been scheduled to go on trial next week. As part of a plea arrangement, the judge sentenced him to a minimum of three years and two months and a maximum of four years and 10 months in prison.

A prosecutor said a doctor noticed during a wellness check that the 2-month-old girl had bruising around her right eye and bleeding in the eye. A further evaluation found she had broken bones in her forearm and multiple broken ribs.