ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester man who beat a child nearly unconscious with a hair dryer was sentenced to five years probation. David Chan, age 32, had pleaded guilty. At the time, last April, a witness told police that Vannade was trying to force the child to apologize for an incident the previous week. Vannadee explained he was “dealing with other stresses in life” and “exploded.” The child was found on a bathroom floor of the family home in northwest Rochester. She was convulsing, drawing shallow breaths, had an open wound on the side of her head, and her face was covered in blood, police said. The complaint said that the officer performed multiple sternum rubs to restore the child’s pulse until medical arrived. A witness said Vannadee had pulled the child into the bathroom to cut her hair and instead grabbed the hair dryer and beat the child. Two other children were in the house. Vannadee was originally jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Vannadee. Admitted hitting the child probably two or three times, then walking out.