Injury to eyes the focus as testimony continues in Gipfert trial

On day three of the State of Nebraska vs. Nancy Gipfert, an expert witness explained the injuries to the alleged victim’s eyes and those who saw the infant in the days and weeks before the incident testified to his prior state.

Gipfert is charged with one count of child abuse causing serious bodily injury, a felony for her alleged part in the incidences leading up the hospitalization of an infant who was in her care prior to suffering seizures and brain injury.

Two months old at the time, the alleged victim suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage and subdural hematoma, as well as retinal hem...