"Jane" ROMO - 8 Months - Mineola (N of Tyler) TX

Mineola police received a report of child abuse from Child
Protective Services which led to a confession by a 19-year-old
Mineola man and arrest by the sheriff’s department.

Reports state the police department received a CPS priority 1
fax that on the night of Sunday, July 31 an eight-month-old girl
had been taken to Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler with severe head
injuries. They reported her parents didn’t know how the injuries
occurred but she had been in their care only. She was transported
to Children’s Hospital in Dallas later that night.

Police investigators Lucky Bolden and Carolyn Tanner spent
Monday, Aug. 1 at the hospital and on Wednesday Captain Joyce Box
interviewed family members all day. She found that the family had
moved from Brenda Lane to outside the city limits. Police were
informed by doctors at Children’s Hospital in Dallas that the baby
had other prior injuries.
Box spoke with the parents several times and ultimately the
father, 19-year-old Adam Fidel Romo, confessed to her about how
part of the injuries had occurred.

Since the family now lives outside the city limits the sheriff’s
department took over part of the investigation and the arrest.
Romo was arrested on Aug. 3 and placed in the Wood County Jail.
He was released on Aug. 6 on $50,000 bond set by Pct. 1 Justice of
the Peace Alice Tomerlin. The baby has been released from the hospital to CPS care.

Lieutenant Jerry Blaylock, a sheriff’s department investigator,
credited Box and Mineola officers for much of the investigation. He
said Romo gave a further confession to sheriff’s Sergeant Maggie
Ingram about how the other injuries occurred.
Blaylock said the injury to a child charge is a second degree
felony charge and there may be further charges.

“It’s a tragedy when anything happens to a child and it is a
blessing to the child when law enforcement can step in and stop it
to where it doesn’t happen again,” he said.
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