Man shoved his fingers down 1-year-old son's throat to stop his crying while fiancee was hospitalized: Police

A antheral successful Kentucky is accused of abusing his toddler lad wrong a hospital and shoving his fingers successful the child's pharynx to halt him from crying.

Steven Davis, 20, faces a complaint of first-degree criminal maltreatment of a child 12 oregon under, Madison County jailhouse records reviewed by Law&Crime show. He was booked into the Madison County Detention Center connected Thursday.

According to an apprehension citation obtained by local Fox affiliate WDKY, connected Feb. 4, Davis was astatine Baptist Health Richmond infirmary successful Richmond, a metropolis located astir 30 miles southeast of Lexington, with his 1-year-old son. His fiancee was being treated successful the hospital's Clinical Decision Unit, described by the installation as "a abstracted abstraction successful the Emergency Department for exigency intelligence wellness services."

According to authorities, astatine 1 point, the kid ran retired of the country wherever they were staying and Davis aggressively dragged him by his limb backmost inside, alarming infirmary staff. The begetter allegedly dragged the lad astir the country by his limb aggregate times, astatine 1 constituent twisting his limb and astatine different constituent slamming him into a chair.

Davis reportedly tried to springiness his lad a bottle, but the kid cried, and the begetter allegedly threw the vessel crossed the room.

As the kid continued crying, the suspect pushed a broad and his fingers wrong the child's rima and down his throat, the transgression citation said, adding that the enactment caused the lad to gag and deed his caput connected a chair.

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Richmond constabulary officers investigated the incident, reportedly reviewing surveillance footage provided by the hospital. Davis was arrested and booked into jail.

The suspect was released connected Friday aft posting a $10,000 bond, the Madison County Circuit Court Clerk's Office told Law&Crime, adding that helium is scheduled for a preliminary proceeding connected Wednesday.