HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A Reno County jury found a man accused of injuring a child “not guilty” on Wednesday.
Alexis Silva was charged with reckless aggravated battery as well as two other alternate counts of abuse of a child. The theory for the first abuse count includes shaking of the child. The second includes cruel or inhuman corporal punishment.
The injuries to the child, according to doctors, consisted of a fracture to the left leg of the 3 month old, but also other injuries that included bruising on both cheeks, fractured ribs and retinal hemorrhaging in one eye, which they say would indicate possible shaking of the child.
The crimes charged against Silva are alleged to have occurred some time between Sept and October of 2013.
District Attorney Keith Schroeder telling us that there was some information that Silva may have abused the mother of the child, but says he couldn’t present that evidence. He says the jury just didn’t find the mother of the child credible. He says we know the abuse occurred, we just couldn’t prove who did it. The good news is that the child is not back in the home.
Again he was found “not guilty” of the charges against him.