Berne man guilty of assaulting daughter



ALBANY COUNTY — A young man from Berne was found guilty last week of assaulting his 3-year-old daughter and now faces up to seven years in prison. Judge Stephen W. Harrick presided over the jury trial.

Adam J. Wright, 22, of 1638 Helderberg Trail, was found guilty by a jury of two felonies — second-degree assault and aggravated assault of a person less than 11 years old. Wright was also found guilty of two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, according to the Albany County District Attorney’s Office.

He will be sentenced on March 27.

On June 29 of last year, Wright was arrested by the Albany County Sheriff’s Department. Police said in June that he had been assaulting his daughter over the past few months. The sheriff’s department had received a call on May 7 from Albany County Child Protective Services, which had been contacted by Albany Medical Center Hospital. Doctors at the hospital thought the girl’s injuries were inconsistent with Wright’s account, the sheriff’s department said in June.

His daughter’s orbital socket was fractured and her body was covered with numerous bruises, which were in various degrees of healing, according to the sheriff’s department.

Following Wright’s June arrest, his daughter was in foster care, supervised by child protective services.

About one year earlier, in July of 2006, Wright was convicted of third-degree assault, police said, for assaulting his daughter.

— Tyler Schuling

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