"Baby John" TRUJILLO - xx yo - Vernal (nr CO border) UT

VERNAL — A Uintah County man is facing child
abuse charges after investigators say he fractured his
young son's skull in several places.


Robbie Duane Trujillo, 32, is charged in 8th District
Court with child abuse, a second-degree felony, domestic
violence assault, a class B misdemeanor, three counts of
domestic violence in the presence of a child, a class B
misdemeanor, and intoxication, a class C misdemeanor.


On March 17, Uintah County sheriff's deputy Pete
Winterton was called to Trujillo's home in Fort Duchesne
on a report of a domestic dispute.


Trujillo and his wife were arguing when he pushed her
to the ground in front of the couple's three children,
according to the probable cause statement Winterton filed
after he arrested Trujillo.


Winterton wrote that while he was in the home, he
noticed one of the children had what appeared to be dried
blood inside his ear. When asked what had happened to the
boy, Trujillo said, "He fell off the curb," the deputy
wrote.



I then made contact with the child's
doctor and was told the child had sustained massive head trauma
resulting in several skull fractures. Multiple areas of bleeding were
also noted in (the child's) brain.






An ambulance was called and the boy was taken to Uintah
Basin Medical Center to be evaluated. Winterton talked
with the EMTs who took the boy to the hospital. They told
him the child disclosed that Trujillo "had kicked him once
in the head and once in the abdomen," the deputy wrote.



"I then made contact with the child's doctor and was
told the child had sustained massive head trauma resulting
in several skull fractures," Winterton wrote. "Multiple
areas of bleeding were also noted in (the child's) brain."



The boy was flown to Primary Children's Medical Center,
where he was treated and later released.


The child's age was not provided in court records, but
Winterton's statement indicated that none of the children
in the home is over the age of 4.


The sheriff's department contacted the state Division
of Child and Family Services, which is working with the
family.


Trujillo made his first court appearance Monday. He
remains in the Uintah County Jail, where he is being held
in lieu of $17,039 bail.
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