Unidentified Baby "John" - 8 Months/ Accused: Lawrence Tenorio - Colorado Springs CO

An 8-month-old fought for his life after suffering multiple skull fractures and ingesting cocaine.


Now the man accused of this abuse will be in court.


According to court documents, the child's mother found her
son limp and discolored after waking up from a nap at her friend
Lawrence Tenorio's house.


Tenorio insisted the boy was fine, and told the mother,
Andrea Martinez, there was no need to go to the hospital. Martinez
disagreed and took the baby to the ER, where he was found to have
suffered three skull fractures, multiple fracture fragments, and
internal head swelling and hemorrhaging.


Arrest papers say that Tenorio told the mother that he was
trying to get the boy to walk alongside the living room couch when his
dogs knocked the child down.


In an exclusive interview with 11 News, an emotional
Tenorio said he was stunned at the allegations that he intentionally
harmed his friend's 8-month-old son.


"It makes me so emotional because I don't even like to
hurt kids' feelings. And they are making me out to be a monster, like I
hurt this baby. And I would never hurt a baby...I have a son of my own,”
Tenorio said.
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