"Newborn John" HAMMER - 6 Weeks - Sarasota FL

An aggravated child abuse charge has been brought against a 22-year-old man after his 6-week-old son suffered a head injury.
The sheriff's office said Joshua Hammer of Bee Ridge Road is also charged with one count of child neglect.


Hammer and his wife brought the infant to Sarasota Memorial Hospital
saying their son had a fever.
Doctors determined the infant had bleeding
on his brain.
When told of the head injury "they came up with three separate
traumatic events in an attempt to explain," the arrest affidavit stated.

Hammer was taken to the county jail and held without bond. The child was placed into the custody of his maternal grandmother.