Daegu High Court / Korea Times file

An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 2 1/2-year prison term for a 20-year-old man charged with throwing his 15-day-old son and causing a skull fracture.

Confirming a lower court's decision, the Daegu High Court rejected the father's appeal. The court also ordered him to undergo 40 hours of child abuse treatment and barred him from employment at children and youth facilities for three years.

The defendant, whose identity has been withheld, was found guilty of throwing the infant on a blanket on the floor on Oct. 22, 2021, for crying and refusing to sleep, court documents showed.

The father also repeatedly spanked the son with a coat hanger and slapped the infant's face. (Yonhap)