SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A $300,000 bond was set for a 19-year-old man after his 4-month-old child was found with multiple broken bones, KSAT News reports.
Daniel Efrain Aguilera was charged with four counts of injury to a child - serious bodily injury with intent, a first-degree felony.
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Police said Aguilera admitted to causing the injuries after the child was seen with these fractures, all in various stages of healing, during a hospital visit on Dec. 13.
According to court docs, Aguilera and the child’s mother brought the baby to the hospital with a skull fracture and six rib fractures.
Aguilera told the hospital staff that he tripped over a blanket while holding the baby and fell on him, according to the report.
Medical staff said the injuries were “reasonably explained” but informed law enforcement due to hospital protocol, the affidavit stated.
On Dec. 20, the Center for Miracles reviewed the child’s injuries on an X-ray and found that in addition to the skull and rib fractures, he also had fractures in both of his tibias and a clavicle fracture, and determined that all of the injuries were in various stages of healing.
The affidavit states that Aguilera then admitted to Child Protective Services workers that he caused the injuries when he was frustrated. He told them that he bent the baby’s legs backward and squeezed them several times in September, and said twice in October, when the baby was crying he squeezed him so tight until he heard a pop and the baby stopped crying.
Aguilera also told CPS workers that when they brought the child to a hospital in December, it was after he struck the child in the back of the head several times when he wouldn’t stop crying, according to the affidavit.
Aguilera was booked into the Bexar County Jail with bonds totaling $300,000.