A man accused of causing “serious bodily injury” to his baby has been taken into custody, weeks after police gave him the opportunity to turn himself in.
The city said in a press release Thursday that 19-year-old Richard Blythe was arrested in Kileen Monday by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force on charges of injury to a child/serious bodily injury.
The baby’s mother, Maudicella Cabello-Perez, was arrested Jan. 10 for failing to prevent the abuse, which included several rib and skull fractures and lacerations to the liver of the nine-month-old girl. Police had previously interviewed Blythe, who pled guilty to a similar offense in 2016. The former Kyle resident received deferred adjudication for that offense.
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