- April 20, 2024
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A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition Saturday, Dec. 12 after a 22-year-old man raised the child over his head and then slammed him into a carpeted concrete floor so hard the boy had a seizure and began bleeding from his ear, according to Sheriff's Office reports.
The little boy was airlifted to Shands Medical Center in Gainesville with severe head injuries. He is in critical but stable condition, according to a Sheriff's Office news release.
The attack happened at about 3:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at a home on Ethel Lane, according to a Sheriff's Office arrest report. Three young girls were also in the house. They told deputies that the little boy had been playing with a door, pushing it from side to side, when Christopher Craig "Kodak" Williams came home and got mad at the boy.
Williams picked the boy up by both arms and then slammed him to the carpeted concrete floor, the girls told a deputy.
"I was a hard slam, it was a hard one," one of the girls said, according to a deputy's report. The girl told the deputy that the boy began crying and bleeding from his ear, and that she tried to stop the bleeding. "She then said that she put paper towels inside his ear because there was a lot of blood coming out," the deputy wrote in the report. "She also said that they tried to talk to him but he wouldn't talk because maybe he couldn't hear us."
The two other girls gave statements that supported her account. One said that Williams had shown up at the house mad and was leaning against a car outside when he saw the little boy pushing the door side to side. The girl said that after slamming the little boy to the ground, Williams walked back out to the car and leaned against it.
Deputies arrested Williams on Sunday, Dec. 13. He is charged with once count of aggravated child abuse and is being held on $10,000 bail, according to the Sheriff's Office news release.
