Dumachest v. Allen

How courts have described this case

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• noting common-law rules concerning duty to act in interpreting General Statutes § 53a-59
• boyfriend who considered himself victim’s stepfather had assumed duty of care for the child
• four month old child subjected, as result of defendant’s failure to intervene, to multiple rib fractures, two skull fractures, brachial plexus injury, rectal tear, and bilateral subconjunctival nasal hemorrhages
• finding a duty to protect live-in girlfriend’s child from abuse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).