Florida man is facing a manslaughter charge after he killed his baby son through severe abuse
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A Florida man is facing a manslaughter charge after he killed his baby son through severe abuse.
On September 12, 2025, the suspect, 30-year-old Robert Lee Boesenberg, was arrested more than three years after authorities said he brought an unresponsive 6-month-old Lincoln Boesenberg to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital (JDCH) in Hollywood, Florida on New Year’s Day 2022.
Investigators said an initial examination showed that Lincoln’s injuries, characterized as “abusive head trauma,” were “likely caused by violent shaking.”
Boesenberg had only been awarded full custody of Lincoln 10 days prior.
Two weeks after arriving at JDCH, Lincoln, who had been otherwise healthy leading up to the incident, would die of craniocerebral blunt trauma. His injuries included a skull fracture and a brain bleed and his cause of death was ruled a homicide.
On December 22, 2021, Boesenberg and the child’s mother had been awarded full custody of Lincoln and their 1-year-old daughter.
Before then, police said the children had been living with a foster parent due to Boesenberg and the children’s mother having a substance abuse history and a prior neglect case with the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Lincoln had been removed from their care at birth because both parents continued to test positive.
Eventually, after routine drug testing, Boesenberg and the children’s mother were granted supervised visits and eventually unsupervised and overnight visits before regaining custody.
Police said more than three years after Lincoln’s death, the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office issued a final autopsy report on September 5, a week before Hallandale Beach police took Boesenberg into custody.
As of September 16, 2025, Boesenberg was being held without bond in the Broward Main Jail on charges of aggravated manslaughter of a child and aggravated child abuse.
