Man Charged with Assaulting 6-Month-Old Burnsville Baby

A Bloomington man has been charged with assaulting his 6-month-old daughter in Burnsville and stalking the child’s mother.

Abdulkadir Sheikh Mahmoud, 33, faces three felony charges in connection with the May 24 incident: pattern of stalking conduct, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, and third-degree assault and malicious punishment of a child, each of which has a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. 

Mahmoud is also charged with domestic assault, a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Mahmoud remains in the Dakota County Jail on a $30,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled June 19 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.

According to the criminal complaint, police were called to a Burnsville apartment May 24 on a report of an assault on a 6-month-old baby. 

Officers encountered an intoxicated man, later identified as Mahmoud, standing outside the apartment holding a baby. The child’s mother told them that she and Mahmoud had been arguing, and during the argument Mahmoud became angry and kicked the baby seat in which their daughter was sitting.

The baby seat flipped over and the child landed face down on the floor, the woman told police. The baby began to cry, and the woman said she was afraid the child was dying, so she called 911.

Paramedics found a purple mark on the baby’s right cheek.

The woman told police that Mahmoud has assaulted her at least 15 times, most recently two days earlier. She showed them bruises on her upper left arm and on her right side that she said were the result of the most recent assault.