Man accused of beating 4-month-old son to death while driving

While police were trying to locate the vehicle, a call came in from a home on Franklin Court, where Cox had dropped off the injured child, about 7:15 p.m., Cross said.

“You just can’t imagine someone beating a child like that while they are driving”, Dena Stevenson said.

‘He would hit the child.

The witness also said that every time the man swung to hit the child, he did so with such force that his auto swerved into the next lane. “Twist his hat and hit the child again”, she said. “He was hitting hard, swinging hard and, you know … he was literally hitting the baby in his head or in his chest or something”.

As soon as Stevenson and her husband realized that the victim of the driver’s blows was an infant in a auto seat, they immediately called police.

He will be back in court Monday morning.

A neighbor reportedly he left the baby in the driveway when returning him to his mother. And then she had told me then that her baby was dead’. The baby was taken to the hospital but Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Robert Fraction told The Associated Press Sunday that Jayceon died of an “inflicted traumatic injury to the head”.

Radcliff police Chief Jeff Cross said the child was taken off life support Saturday night and passed away shortly after that.

A father will appear in court August. 10 charged with the murder of his four month old son.

Cox, who is being held in the Hardin County Detention Center, was initially charged with first-degree criminal abuse Friday in connection with the boy’s assault, Cross said.

Cox’s bond is set at $500,000.