Havre man pleads to hitting 9-month-old

A Havre man pleaded guilty Thursday in District Court in Havre to hitting a 9-month-old and causing a hemorrhage in the infant’s left eye.

Bruce Collins, born in 1989, pleaded guilty to felony assault on a minor and is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 18.

A registered nurse at Northern Montana Hospital called police Feb. 6 to report that a child had “suspicious bruising” and a hemorrhage on his face.

The responding officer noticed the bruising on the left side of the child’s face from his eye to his jawbone, a handprint on the left side of his face and bruising on the right side.

The nurses told...