OCONTO, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Vincent Enneper was ordered Thursday to stand trial for allegedly injuring his three-month-old daughter.
Enneper, 24, will enter a plea April 1 to four charges, including child abuse-causing great bodily harm. Enneper waived a preliminary hearing Thursday, court records show.
According to the criminal complaint, Children’s Wisconsin in Wauwatosa called police Jan. 9 because the child arrived with significant head trauma.
“Scans showed multiple skull fractures, a brain bleed, and the baby was seizing since arriving at Children’s,” the complaint states.
Enneper was home alone with the girl. He said the girl fell and hit the hardwood floor, but the injuries were inconsistent with that explanation. He denied acting forcibly towards the girl.
The complaint quotes a doctor’s assessment of the force needed: “Dr. Petska stated that the injuries required an extreme amount of force and that the injuries required an equivalent force to that baby being ejected from a motor vehicle crash at 60mph.”
As for the girl’s future, the complaint offers this assessment:
“Prognosis: Children who suffer abusive head trauma are universally affected for the rest of their lives. Some children die either immediately or later due to complications of the head trauma. There is a wide range of outcomes for children who survive; some do relatively well and are able to live relatively normal lives and others are severely devastated and may require constant care for the rest of their lives. At this time, it is not possible to state what this child’s long-term prognosis is. It is known that she has sustained injury to her brain, as evidenced by imaging studies as well as clinical appearance. Children with this type of injury may have significant long-term morbidity, including seizure disorders, spasticity, and major developmental delay. The full extent of EE’s injuries will not be known for at least weeks to months, and possibly years,” the complaint says.
In 2012, Enneper, then a teenager, was convicted of setting fire to St. Anthony School in Oconto Falls. He was sentenced to five years in prison, and was released from prison in February, 2017, according to state prison records. He is still on extended supervision by the Dept. of Corrections.
