A woman and her boyfriend will remain in jail after the woman’s son was found with a broken femur and bruises on his forehead, cheek and body in Newnan.
Chambless Shenandoah, 18, and Jeffrey Baird, 30, were arrested May 28, according to a Newnan police incident report.
Both were charged with aggravated battery and child cruelty and were denied bond, according to the Coweta County Jail where they are being housed.
Officers responded last month to a call about a 1-year-old with a bandaged leg in the 90th block of Millard Farmer Industrial Boulevard. When they arrived, they found a boy and girl in a room that smelled like alcohol and had food containers, beer bottles and clothes on the floor, according to the incident report.
The girl wasn’t injured.
But the boy had a large bruise on his forehead and cheek, and his body was “covered with smaller bruises,” according to the report.
When asked, Baird said the child fell a couple of times over the past few weeks, including in the bathtub when he hit his cheek, according to the incident report. When officers asked why he did not take the child to the hospital, Baird said because the family did not have insurance, the report states.
The boy was taken in an ambulance to Piedmont Newnan Hospital, where authorities later learned he had a 101.3 fever, police said.
The Georgia Division of Family and Children Services took custody of the boy and released the girl to relatives, authorities confirmed.
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