The father said his 3-month-old son fell onto the floor, but prosecutors said the child's injuries say otherwise.
Kenneth Wayne Wesley, 39, is charged with serious bodily injury to a child.
"His indication is that his son fell onto the floor, which was a two to three-foot fall, however, the injuries are not consistent with that," Gilbert Sawtelle, the prosecutor on the case said."They are more consistent with violent acceleration-deceleration forces or shaking and also a blunt force injury to his head, or multiple blunt force injuries to his head.
Court records show that doctors found the child had brain and eye bleeds, multiple skull fractures, and new and healing rib fractures. The infant died on April 4. Prosecutors said the child was in the care of his father for the last month of his life because the child's mother is in jail for her third DWI."I did not hurt my son," Wesley told the judge, despite being told by the public defender not to speak."He fell. I can't take nobody saying something about my son.
Both the defense attorney and prosecutor made the decision not to address bond during Wednesday's court hearing. Wesley has a blue warrant, which means he is accused of another crime while out on parole. He was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old and sentenced to 12 years. Based on the findings in the autopsy, Sawtelle said Wesley's charges will be upgraded to either felony murder or capital murder.
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