CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Authorities arrested a Charleston man accused of abusing his infant son.
Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputy A.R. Gordon and Cpl. B.E. Borchers were dispatched early Saturday morning to a Kanawha Boulevard East home, in the Port Amherst area, after
someone there called 911 and then hung up.
The deputies arrived and spoke with Jessica Reames, who told them she and her husband, 31-year-old Chad Eric Reames, had been upstairs arguing and that
one of them must have accidentally dialed 911, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.
The woman alerted her husband that the deputies wanted to speak with him, and the man came down the stairs holding the couple's 4-month-old son by his left arm, the complaint said.
Deputies said in the complaint that Reames was holding the infant, who was visibly in pain, at shoulder level and that the child's arm was red from bearing his body weight.
Reames took a defensive stance and held his son in front of him as a shield, the complaint said.
When deputies
confronted Reames about his son's injuries, the man jerked the child away from deputies, the complaint said.
Deputies tried to arrest Reames but the man refused to put his hands behind his back, according to the complaint. Once he was handcuffed, Reames threw himself backwards into the deputies, striking Borchers twice, before they were able to regain control of him, the complaint said.
Reames was taken directly to South Central Regional Jail because of his combative behavior, deputies said.
He was charged with felony child abuse creating risk of injury, obstruction, resisting arrest and four counts of battery on a police officer. His bond was set at $200,000, property only.
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