“I was in the kitchen shaking the bottle, and I heard a noise from the bedroom. It was Mason.”

When he walked back, he said, that’s when he saw the wipe in the baby’s mouth.

“I panicked. I picked Mason up,” he said. “I yelled to Courtney to call 911.”

He said he ran from the bedroom with the choking child and stubbed his toe on the corner of a couch, falling to the ground and landing on top of the infant.

As the young mother ran for help, Ciccone said, he was finally able to wedge a finger beneath the wipe and jerked it forward, where he was able to pull it free.

Within minutes, emergency personnel arrived and took the infant to CVPH Medical Center, where he was intubated in respiratory distress and later diagnosed with a broken femur, along with two other leg fractures.

DIDN’T MENTION FALL

Assistant District Attorney Kristy Sprague questioned Ciccone at length as to why he never told the first-emergency responders that he fell on the boy.

A doctor previously testified that Ciccone, although extremely cooperative, only mentioned the fall after he learned of the leg fracture.

On the stand, Ciccone maintained that he told the doctor about the fall during the initial questioning and didn’t tell the first-responders because they “didn’t ask” and were concerned only with the baby’s choking and breathing complications.

Sprague also questioned his actions before the baby choked, since the doctor testified that Ciccone had said he was disposing of the diaper when the baby choked, though that diaper was later found in the bedroom.

“I loved Mason. I still love Mason,” he said emotionally, eventually becoming visibly frustrated and confused by the prosecution’s line of questioning.

SON ‘CRYING’