25-year-old Javier Junior Delgado has been arrested on charges of Reckless Child Abuse With Serious Injury after shaking his one-month-old son to the point where the baby is now in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.
Delgado called 911 yesterday morning and reported his baby was having difficulty breathing. He initially told investigators that he had lost his grip on the child when he unwrapped him from a blanket but doctors said that the injuries were consistent with being shaken extensively.
When Delgado was questioned again by police he admitted to having shaken the child. Delgado is currently lodged in the Utah County Jail and his son is in the ICU at Primary.
