911 calls: Baby in critical condition had ‘stiff’ limbs, issues breathing

TROY — A 31-year-old Troy man jailed on felonious assault and child endangering charges is accused of shaking his 4-month-old daughter.

The girl remains in critical condition at Dayton Children’s Hospital, where she was taken Tuesday suffering from a brain bleed and retinal hemorrhage, according to a Troy police report.

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Roger Meyer appeared in Miami County Municipal Court Wednesday and his bond was set at $500,000.

Crews were called twice Tuesday to the Royal Inn motel where the family was staying on reports the baby was having “seizure-like symptoms.”

“I think my baby is having a seizure or something,” Meyer told the 911 dispatcher. “All of a sudden her hands got stiff...She’s not concentrating and her eyes are up.”

The baby’s mother told the dispatcher that the infant didn’t have a history of seizures, but was born premature and was in the NICU for 10 days.

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“I’ve seen seizures before, just not in babies,” she told the dispatcher.

When a crew responded to the motel, the infant wasn’t showing any symptoms and nothing suspicious was suspected.

Shortly after the crew left, the parents call 911 again.

“Can we please have that ambulance come back?” Meyer asked. “She just did it again.”

The parents told the dispatcher the girl vomited and was having issues breathing.

“Looks like it’s hard for her breathe,” Meyer said. “She’s breathing but she doesn’t look like she’s breathing as good as she should be.”

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When the crew responded the second time, EMTs reported the child had a “fixed and dilated eye” and that her right eye was only opened halfway and would not track, according to the report.

She was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at Upper Valley Medical Center, where a doctor told police the baby had a brain bleed and retinal hemorrhage, and that she required treatment at the children’s hospital.

According to the report, the child’s injuries were inflicted sometime between 6 and 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, apparently when she was in the care of her father.

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Meyer told police that his daughter woke up crying and that he had been feeding her when she stuck her hands up in the air and started “pooping.” He gave her Motrin and medication for gas and called his girlfriend, the baby’s mother, to tell her the baby “was not acting right.”

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