MASSACHUSETTS -- A Marlborough man was arrested after police said he held a 1-year-old child upside down by his leg and shook him and tried to strangle two dogs at a South Street home Monday afternoon.
Thomas F. Cummisky Jr., 64, was ordered by a Marlborough District Court Judge on Monday to go to Bridgewater State Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. His arraignment was continued to Dec. 28.
Cummisky was charged with assault and battery, cruelty to animals and reckless endangerment to a child, police said.
According to a police report filed in Marlborough District Court, officers went to 251 South St., which Cummisky listed as his address, for a report of a disturbance at 5:08 p.m. Monday.
Police said Cummisky was drunk and causing a disturbance and refused to leave when asked. They spoke to his granddaughter, who said Cummisky had showed up to the house drunk and family members asked him to leave.
When he didn’t, police said an argument ensued and Cummisky began calling her names and making threats.
He then "attempted to strangle the two family dogs during his drunken rage," Officer James Gough wrote in the police report.
The granddaughter told police that she was able to get a hold of the dogs and was putting them in another room when she turned around and saw Cummisky holding her 1-year-old son upside down by the leg and shaking him.
Police said that neither the dogs nor the child were injured.
If Cummisky is released from the Bridgewater facility before his Dec. 28 arraignment date, he will be held without bail, according to court records.
(metrowestdailynews.com - Dec 5, 2012)
