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Stafford baby critically injured in apparent shaken baby case.
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A 15-month-old Stafford boy is in critical condition and his mother and her boyfriend have been arrested in connection with alleged abuse, police said.
According to Sheriff's spokesman Bill Kennedy and court records, police got a 911 call at 10:43 p.m. Sunday regarding a child in distress on Cruiser Drive in Aquia Harbour.
Rescue workers met the child's mother at a park in the subdivision and took the child to Stafford Hospital Center. The child was soon flown to Inova Fairfax Hospital.
An affidavit for a search warrant filed in Stafford Circuit Court states that Deputy Burton Collins went to Stafford Hospital and was told by officials there that the child had been abused and was possibly a victim of shaken-baby syndrome.
Another affidavit states that the mother and the boyfriend both told police that a 3-year-old sibling caused the injuries or the injuries might have occurred when the baby fell out of his crib.
Medical professionals told police that the injuries were far too severe to have been caused by a small child or a fall from a crib, the affidavit states.
Carrie Woods, 23, and William Burd III, 35, who live together on Cruiser Drive, were both charged with felony child abuse and felony child neglect.
They are in the Rappahannock Regional Jail under no bond.
Detective Thomas Leonard's investigation has revealed that the critically injured boy was recently taken to the hospital to be treated for a broken arm, an affidavit states.
Medical personnel were told that the child was just learning to walk and tripped over a blanket.
Leonard also learned that Burd, a registered sex offender, was seen putting makeup on the child in an apparent attempt to cover up bruises while he was being treated for the arm injury.
The affidavit states that after the child's latest injuries Woods told her father that she and Burd were going to leave town "before they were arrested," but were waiting to make sure the child "was not going to die first."
On Tuesday, court records state, Burd was arrested by Aquia Harbour police on charges of driving on a revoked license and possession of illegal drugs. Woods was following him in a van.
Kennedy said the child was still in critical condition last night.
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