James Grimes, 26, has been arrested for allegedly abusing a 3-month-old child.
Police responded to USA Children and Woman’s Hospital in reference to a three-month-old female there with multiple injuries. Police say, during the examination of the child, the injuries were discovered to be serious in nature.
News 5 looked into his criminal past and learned Grimes served time for a 2012 child abuse case.
According to court documents related to the 2012 case, Grimes slammed an infant girl, breaking her leg and causing bruises to her face and chest.
Records show Grimes pleaded guilty in 2013 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison on child abuse and assault charges. He was granted an early release in 2016 after serving just under three years of the sentence.
In a handwritten letter to the judge who sentenced him, dated a few months after the sentencing, Grimes asked to get out early on probation.
"I just wanna go home and betta myself by enrolling in college and be somebody," he writes in the letter. "Being a gangsta is not a good life to live because they all end up dead or in prison for the rest of they life. I ain't no gangsta and I'm not trying to be locked up for the rest of my life."
Grimes promised to change his life and closed the letter by asking the judge to "accept these words to your heart as the truth."
While his bid for early release in 2013 was denied, Grimes was later released on parole in February 2016.
News 5 has confirmed that Grimes is the father of both children, and they both have the same mother.
Child protective services has removed the children from the home, while the investigation continues.