Man allegedly admits to repeatedly biting infant

LYNN – A judge found a city man to be dangerous and ordered him released on $5,000 cash bail and to have no contact with the infant whom the man allegedly admitted to biting multiple times.”He told me he did that to baby because the baby was crying and he lost control; he didn’t know what to do,” the child’s mother testified in court Thursday.Shamir Disla, 21, of 15 Franklin St. #26, was arrested on a warrant and charged with assault and battery on a child with injury; at 5:42 p.m. Feb. 7. Disla was arraigned on the charge last Monday in Lynn District Court where a plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf.He was held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing Thursday.The mother testified during the hearing that Disla called her while she was at school Feb. 3 and told her their child had what appeared to be bite marks all over his body. The mother returned home and found bite marks on the child’s back, stomach, legs and arms. None of the bites appeared to have broken the child’s skin, but some were reddish and had raised the skin, police and the woman said. The mother testified that the bite marks had not been there when she changed the child’s diaper that morning or bathed him the previous night.Disla, however, blamed the woman’s little brother.”But I knew it wasn’t my little brother because my brother is missing two teeth, and there were full teeth marks,” the woman testified. She also noted the bite marks were from an adult mouth. “My brother is 7 years old,” she testified.The mother took the child to her parents’ house, where Disla later showed up and again tried to blame his wife’s little brother. Disla later admitted to her, however, that it was he who bit the child, the mother testified.The mother said she took the child to the police and then the emergency room the next day, where the infant stayed for three days. The Department of Children and Families was notified and held the child while investigating the matter.”I have my baby back,” the mother said Thursday, smiling. “Yesterday.”The mother said she was surprised at the incident because Disla had never been violent to the baby.She acknowledged, however, that Disla had previously abused her. She said that in one instance, she had a miscarriage in 2012 when Disla stood behind her and pushed her stomach against a bed.The hearing continued to Friday, and Judge Ellen Flatley ordered Disla held on $5,000 cash bail. She set conditions of release including that Disla abide by the mother’s restraining order, that he and his family have no contact with the child or the child’s mother, that he remain drug and alcohol free with random tests and report to probation once a week.Members of Disla’s family declined to comment outside the courtroom on Thursday afternoon.