William Furylan Whitson-Garcia, 20 is being held in the Pittsburg County Jail for allegedly causing numerous injuries to a then 7-week-old child, court documents state.
According to a probable cause affidavit prepared by McAlester Police Detective Brent Gamble, McAlester Police Officer Chris Skinner completed an initial report June 3 concerning a 7-week-old child that was taken to the McAlester Regional Health Center for a spiral fracture of the left arm.
The affidavit states the parents told the officer they had no idea how the injury to the child could have occurred.
The exam found the child to have seven rib fractures, two healing fractures in the legs, along with the spiral fracture in the arm, the affidavit states.
On June 6, both parents were interviewed by Gamble and DHS after signing a Miranda waiver, the affidavit states.
Gamble wrote in the affidavit that Garcia would only tell the investigators that he had squeezed the child “very tightly one time in a comforting manner” and that he may have accidentally caused the injury to the child’s ribs and denied knowledge of the other injuries.
In a June 7 interview, after signing a Miranda waiver, Garcia told investigators that he remembered a day when the child was about to fall off the couch and that he pulled the child’s arm, the affidavit states.
On June 8, Garcia signed another Miranda waiver and admitted to investigators that two weeks prior to the interview, the child was crying, and he picked up the child and “squeezed much too hard around the child’s torso” and Garcia felt like this was when the child’s ribs were broken, the affidavit states.
Garcia told the investigators that he knew he squeezed the child too hard and that he may have injured the child, the affidavit states. Garcia also told investigators that around the same time, he was changing the child’s diaper and he grabbed the child’s feet with some force and that he thought that is what accounted for the healing fractures in the child’s legs, the affidavit states.
The man also told investigators that around May 22 or 23, he went into the bedroom where the child was laying on the bed crying, the affidavit states. The affidavit continues with Garcia telling investigators that he grabbed the child’s arm, and with a great deal of force and a twisting motion, jerked the child up off the bed and toward him.
Gamble wrote in the affidavit that Garcia demonstrated the motion to investigators, and that his training and experience recognized the action performed by Garcia “as the kind of twisting and sudden movement that could cause a spiral fracture.”
Before being placed under arrest, Garcia began to cry and told investigators “that he did not mean for this to happen,” the affidavit states.
Man accused of numerous injuries to infant
A McAlester man was being held as of Tuesday in the Pittsburg County Jail for allegedly causing numerous injuries to a then 7-week-old child, court documents state.
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