White Couple Charged With Abuse After 11-Month-Old Is Found With Human Bite Marks
A Missouri couple faces child abuse charges after their 11-month-old son was found bloodied and with injuries including bite marks, ruptured eardrums and a broken nose, PEOPLE confirms.
According to a news release from police in Troy, Missouri, police were dispatched last Friday on a report of an injured juvenile. When they arrived, officers and paramedics saw an 11-month-old infant with “substantial bruises, cuts to the head and face, human bite marks on his body,” and bleeding inside his ears and nose.
The infant’s father, Brandon D. Johnson, told police he’d been alone in the apartment with the child the previous night, and the two had laid down on a living room couch around 11 p.m.
To prevent the infant from falling off, the father allegedly said he positioned the child along the back of the couch and between the father’s left arm and chest. The boy at the time had no injuries other than “maybe” a few “slight” scratches to the back of his hands caused by interactions with a family cat, Johnson told police.
He allegedly said they fell asleep together around 2:30 a.m. But when the father awoke around 5 a.m., he said his son was sitting up on a corner of the couch at his father’s feet.
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