‘Permanently disfigured’: Jury convicts father after infant son suffers over 50 rat bites leading to ‘near fatal event’ in infested home

David Schonabaum

Inset: David Schonabaum (Vanderburgh County Jail). Background: Evansville, Indiana, home where an infant suffered 50 rat bites (WEHT).

An Indiana father whose 6-month-old son was found with more than 50 rat bites in their vermin-infested home will be going to prison.

David Schonabaum, 32, was sentenced on Wednesday to 16 years, online court records show. He was found guilty of three counts of child neglect for the boy and two other kids in the home.

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