Eighteen-year-old Jalin White is charged with felony child abuse and neglecting a child, after prosecutors said he threw a baby at a wall earlier this week.
Milwaukee police said that the child is just 8 months old.
Prosecutors in court Saturday did not say what led up to the abuse, but did say that White confessed to throwing the baby at a wall.
"Your statement (was) he hit the wall hard. You heard the bang of the wall," Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Andrea Bolender said.
The abuse sent the 8-month-old to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to police. Prosecutors said medical experts believe the child has been abused multiple times before.
"Which have multiple injuries indicating that the victim had been abused multiple ways over a period of time," Witte said.
Prosecutors did not say whether or not the baby is White's, but White became emotional in court, shaking his head and wiping tears from his eyes.
"The medical personnel have indicated that, sadly, this child is not expected to live," Bolender said. "Which would increase these charges to a homicide."
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