OGDEN -- A 37-year-old Ogden man has been charged with attempted aggravated murder and child abuse after doctors said a 9-month-old boy suffered multiple skull fractures, both new and healing.
Apolinar Flores was arrested Monday evening after he and the boy's mother took the child to McKay-Dee Hospital. He was formally charged Tuesday morning.
He will be formally arraigned today in 2nd District Court.
The infant was flown by LifeFlight to Primary Children's Hospital with traumatic head injuries, Police Lt. Danielle Croyle said. The child is listed in critical condition.
Detectives interviewed Flores, arrested him and booked him into Weber County Jail.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Flores admitted to being the only caretaker with the child when the multiple injuries occurred.
"Flores stated that the victim fell off a bed," it reads. "The doctors stated that this is not possible to produce the injuries."
The injuries were described as multiple skull fractures, a subdural hematoma and bleeding in the brain. They included "old injuries" healing and visible on the child's brain, the document said.
A neurosurgeon described the injuries as resulting from "a high energy impact."
In the affidavit, Flores also told police he is in the country illegally and that "if he was guilty he would flee to Mexico."
He has several aliases, according to court records, including Apoliar Tzontecomani and Bernardo Perez-Miguel.
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