Man charged with throwing 5-month-old baby across hallway

Milwaukee County Sheriff\'s Office

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Prosecutors have charged 38-year-old Sergio Chavez-Morales with physical abuse of a child, after they say he threw a baby across a hallway. 

The incident happened back on Dec. 22, near North Teutonia Avenue and West Roosevelt Drive. 

According to the complaint Milwaukee police responded to the area for a weapons complaint, as the defendant was reportedly being chased by someone armed with a knife.

After the officers separated the parties, the complaint goes on to say that a witness said they saw Chavez-Morales grab the five-month-old and threw the baby across the hallway, causing the baby to cry out in pain. 

The baby was taken to Children's Wisconsin for x-ray studies, and no immediate fractured bones could be observed.

Chavez-Morales is facing two felony counts of child abuse-intentionally causing harm and bail jumping. 

Prosecutors say Chavez-Morales was already out on bound for a separate case involving a felony offense of strangulation and suffocation.


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