PLATTSBURGH — When Anthony Ciccone first started dating Courtney Facteau last year, he didn’t see her infant son very often.

But as the relationship became more serious, the 26-year-old Plattsburgh man started spending more time with Mason Facteau.

“I was with him a lot. I was with him all the time,” Ciccone testified Wednesday afternoon during his assault trial before Clinton County Court Judge Patrick McGill.

DAY RECALLED

Ciccone said he went to one of the infant’s regular doctor checkups and would help his girlfriend care for the baby when she visited his home and those of their relatives.

Ciccone said that’s what he was doing one morning last May when the 4-month-old boy woke up after an oft-interrupted night of sleep.

“I told Courtney to go ahead and lay down, that I’d take care of Mason,” he told jurors during the fifth day of the trial.

During questioning by defense attorney Allan Cruikshank, Ciccone said he played with the boy for awhile, then it came time for a diaper change.

“I used the wipes one at a time and cleaned him up. However many I used, there was one left.”

He said he wiped the baby down with the final wipe and balled it up, a routine that other witnesses have testified to.

But, he said, this time he left the balled-up wipe in the baby’s reach, instead of discarding it on the floor with the diaper and other wipes.

LEFT TO FIX BOTTLE

After another round of play time, Ciccone said, he went to the kitchen to make the baby a bottle.