Father charged with shaking infant daughter

A father has been charged with depraved assault for allegedly shaking his infant daughter and causing her to sustain life-threatening injuries, including brain damage.
Jianjin Ren, 31, of 140-59 Ash Avenue in Flushing, has been arraigned in Queens Criminal Court. He is charged with first-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The defendant, who was ordered held without bail, faces up to 25 years in prison, if convicted.
According to the charges, Ren was in his apartment at approximately 10 p.m. on December 16, caring for his daughter Iris while his wife, Shuqun Lin, was taking a shower. During this time, the baby began to cry and, it is alleged, Ren violently and repeatedly shook the infant in order to make her stop.
When Lin exited the shower, it is alleged that she observed the baby to be pale, sweating profusely, lethargic and unwilling to take a bottle. The infant was admitted the next day to the emergency room at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, seizing and unresponsive. She was transferred that same day to Long Island Jewish Hospital, where a medical examination revealed that the baby had serious and life-threatening injuries - including bleeding on the brain, retinal hemorrhaging and hypoxic ischemic injury (oxygen deprivation) to the brain - which are consistent with the non-accidental trauma of shaken baby syndrome.