A Miami father is facing an aggravated child abuse allegation after authorities said his 4-month-old baby was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries while in his care.
Antwan Major, 22, of Liberty City, is also facing child negligence charges.
According to police, Major had been caring for his son at home for around ten days before Tuesday. When it came time for the baby’s mother to take him, she “noticed bruising under his left eye, noticed he could not hold weight in his left hand, and cried continuously,” according to the police report.
According to the article, she transported her kid to Homestead Hospital for treatment, after which medics evacuated him to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital with “fractured ribs and a brain bleed.”
According to authorities, Major texted the child’s mother just before bringing him home, stating that the boy “fell, but he caught him on the side of the bed.”
He later told her the same thing in a controlled phone call, police said, adding that the fall occurred Saturday night but that he did not take the youngster to the hospital because he “did not show signs that he needed medical attention.”
“While at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, the victim was seen by Child Protection Team nurse practitioner Amy Weeks, who determined that the victim’s injuries were at different healing stages, indicative of child abuse,” according to the report! “Nurse practitioner Weeks deemed in her professional opinion that the injuries of the victim were the result of physical child abuse.”
According to the report, nurses at the hospital informed police that the baby “suffered multiple bilateral healing rib fractures, (a) healing right femur shaft fracture, and (a) healing left proximal humerus buckle fracture.”
Police claimed they apprehended Major along Northwest Seventh Avenue and 62nd Street on Friday morning.
Authorities said he claimed the toddler fell out of bed.
Major appeared before a Miami-Dade judge Friday afternoon, who ordered him jailed without bond.
He was being housed at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Friday evening.
Reference: Miami man jailed after 4-month-old suffers fractured ribs, brain bleed, cops say