LEWISTON – The account given to police by a Wilton man charged with manslaughter is inconsistent with the 17-month-old victim’s injuries, according to court records. The toddler also had indications of old injuries, including fractured ribs and skull, records showed.

Meanwhile, David Cook, 25, the man charged with Matteo Hanson’s death, attempted suicide Friday, Franklin County Sheriff Dennis Pike said.

Jeffrey Love, a detective with Maine State Police, wrote in a sworn affidavit that an official at the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner performed an autopsy on Hanson.

That doctor said the boy, also of Wilton, died from extensive multiple blunt force trauma to the torso.

His injuries were consistent with being severely kicked or punched, but not falling down the stairs.

“The injuries could not have occurred by falling down the stairs,” Love said deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Marguerite DeWitt told him.

The explanation given to police by Cook of the time that elapsed after the boy’s fall also was inconsistent with his injuries, DeWitt told Love.

Love’s four-page affidavit said Cook initially blamed the boy’s 3-year-old sister with pushing her brother down a flight of stairs at the two-story apartment on Route 2 that belonged to the children’s mother and Cook’s girlfriend, Brandy Swett.

Cook, who lived with his mother on Route 156, but occasionally stayed with Swett, was charged with manslaughter on Friday following investigations by local and state police. Cook was listed in fair condition at Central Maine Medical Center on Monday after overdosing on medication taken from his mother’s home, authorities said. He lost consciousness shortly after being booked Friday at Franklin County jail in Farmington, Pike said. Police believe Cook overdosed before he was arrested by state police, Pike said.

Cook denied any suicidal desires during a standard booking procedure that screens a new inmate’s health and mental condition, Pike said.

“Shortly thereafter he became violently ill and then he became unconscious,” Pike said. Cook was treated at the jail by medical staff there before being taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital. Early Saturday morning he was moved to CMMC.

Pike said he was not at liberty to say what type of medicine Cook took, but said he believed it was a suicide attempt.

“I can think of no other reason a person would ingest so much of something of that nature,” Pike said Monday.

Pike also said jail authorities were notified by Cook’s mother that some of her medicine was missing.

Cook was scheduled to make his initial appearance at 8th District Court on Monday but that hearing was postponed, because his medical condition prevented him from being there.

Wilton police responded to a 911 call on Nov. 29 at Swett’s apartment and determined that the child’s death looked suspicious. Cook told police Hanson was pushed or fell down the stairs. A paramedic told police Hanson was pale, cold and didn’t have a pulse.

Cook told police he left the two children at the top of the stairs when he went into the bathroom to draw a bath for Hanson. When he came back, Hanson was lying at the bottom of the staircase; his sister was pointing, saying, “Boo-boo.”

Cook said Hanson was responsive and ate and drank afterward. But DeWitt said the onset of Hanson’s symptoms would have been immediate.

On Dec. 11, Love talked to Cook, who said he had been thinking a lot and wasn’t sure what to do. Love wrote that Cook planned to go to church to “talk to God and meet with me at a later date when (Cook) would tell me everything I want to know.”