Wade faced multiple potential counts.
Prosecutors did not charge every theory discussed by relatives.
The principal charges centered on:
Assault/endangerment relating to Lucy’s clavicle injury.
Assault/reckless endangerment for throwing her toward hospital stairs.
Domestic assault against Claire.
Property destruction related to the phone under the applicable statute.
Witness intimidation/coercive threat theories were considered carefully.
Not every ugly sentence met the statutory threshold.
No attempted murder.
No kidnapping.
No conspiracy.
The hospital event was strongest visually.
The home event required proving what the grab meant legally.
Wade admitted grabbing Lucy.
Denied intent to hurt.
The fracture resulted from impact after the pull.
The state argued reckless and intentional unlawful force against a child.
The USB video helped.
Claire’s injuries helped her domestic-assault count.
The threat:
“If you tell Daniel what happened here, I will come back and you will regret it.”
The prosecutor used it as context.
Not converted automatically into a felony threat without satisfying statute.
Then plea negotiations.
Wade offered to admit:
Domestic assault against Claire.
Reckless child endangerment at the hospital.
False statement about the porch fall.
He resisted admitting responsibility for Lucy’s clavicle fracture beyond accident.
The state refused to dismiss the central child-injury count entirely.
Trial.
