Mom’s boyfriend is charged with assault
Published 1:32 pm Thursday, December 11, 2008
Editor's note: The following information was made available Tuesday afternoon, after the printing of this week's edition of The Courier-Herald. This update is available only on our on-line version. A full update on the story will appear in the next edition of The Courier-Herald.
An Enumclaw 18-year-old was charged Tuesday with a brutal assault that left a toddler with 11 broken bones.
Joshua Folk was charged with first-degree child assault by the King County Prosecutor's Office.
According to court documents, Folk admitted during a taped interview he became angry when the little girl wouldn't stop crying. In an affidavit prepared by Enumclaw Det. Heidi Hoffman, Folk "stated that on five separate occasions…he violently assaulted the baby girl."
Folk was living with the victim and her mother at the time of the April 12 assaults. They were residing in a Warner Avenue apartment.
On April 13, the baby girl was taken to Enumclaw Community Hospital by her mother, grandparents and Folk. When hospital staff discovered the extent of the child's injuries, Enumclaw police were notified.
Folk is presently being held on $500,000 bail at the Regional Justice Center in Kent. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a prison term ranging from almost eight years to more than 10 years.
