"Baby John" ESCALDON-LUNA - 3 months - (2010) Mercedes TX

Mercedes TX ---- Police arrested the mother and father of a 3-month-old
baby boy who showed signs of abuse after he died at the hospital.
Mercedes police officers responded to a call of an unresponsive baby
Sunday morning at a home on the 500 block of Ohio Street, said
Police Chief Olga Maldonado.
The baby was rushed to Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco, where he died
upon arrival.
Preliminary autopsy results show the baby did not die from bruises
found on his behind and legs, Maldonado said.
The baby’s father, Luis Escaldon, told police the baby got the
bruises after he repeatedly spanked the child on Saturday.
Escaldon was arrested Sunday on injury to a child and sexual assault
charges — after the child’s mother, Brenda Luna, told police that he had
raped her earlier that morning.
Because Luna also knew her baby’s spanking caused bruises but did not
contact authorities, police arrested her on one count of child
endangerment — a state jail felony.
Escaldon and Luna — both are Mexican nationals — were set to face the
felony charges during an arraignment Monday evening in Mercedes
Municipal Court. Bond information was not immediately available.
The couple’s four other children — the oldest is five years old —
were turned over to Child Protective Services investigators, Maldonado
said. Injury to a child that does not cause serious injury is a third
degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and up to a $10,000
fine. If the final autopsy results implicate Escaldon for killing his
baby, his criminal charges could escalate to murder.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/mercedes-36910-faces-baby.html

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