Child Taken From Day Care May Have Skull Fracture
POSTED: Thursday, October 9, 2008
UPDATED: 12:30 am CDT October 10,
2008
SAN ANTONIO -- A child taken to the hospital by emergency officials had a suspicious-looking wound on the back of the head, said investigators.
Emergency responders were called about 4:15 p.m. to the Educare Child Care facility at
246 Fair Avenue for a call of an 10-month-old child having trouble breathing. When an emergency team responded, they noticed the child was lethargic and having trouble breathing, as well as the wound, and drove the child to University Hospital, investigators said.
The child, Haley, is in stable condition at the hospital, said her great-grandfather Ray Calderon. He said she appears to have a skull fracture, which may have happened over the weekend.
"They took her to the doctor, and the doctor saw her and he gave her the thumbs up. She was A-OK, (just) a little bump on the head," he said. "She's ten months old, she was trying to get up on the sofa and fell like all babies do."
Calderon said as far as he knew, Haley was fine when her mother dropped her off at the day care center Thursday morning. He said Haley was breathing on her own at the hospital.
Investigators said they were investigating the incident as a possible case of child abuse, but they also said it could turn out to be nothing more than an accident.
"We're not concerned from our end because this is their only child and it's a good baby," Calderon said. "It's a healthy baby, so I don't think we have any concern in that area."
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