RSS FeedGRANTS - A Grants man has been indicted on two counts of abuse of a child involving great bodily injury, both first degree felony charges.
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Conviction of a first degree felony could be punishable by a life sentence in prison.
The Cibola County Sheriff's Office received a report from a state reporting facility on behalf of a children's hospital in Albuquerque. The report read that a child, of Grants, had a large collection of fluid on his brain, his motor skills were very low for his age and could not hold his head up. The doctor concluded that the child had been violently shaken because of the fluid and a retinal tear of the left eye. A second doctor reviewed the information and considered the child's condition to be “consistent from a non-accidental trauma” which in the doctor's stated opinion, “was child abuse.”
According to the affidavit, Brown was questioned regarding the allegations on Nov. 3 at a hospital. Brown stated when the child was born, he was intelligent and healthy. The man told the officials that it would be easy for one the boy's other brothers to have “whacked their baby brother with a Tonka truck toy.”
When Brown was asked if he had ever picked up and shaken the child, he responded, “no sir, not ever.”
He was arrested on Nov. 6, and is held on a $500,000 cash only bond at the Cibola Correctional Detention Center.
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