A 26-year-old Hennessey man remains jailed on $100,000 bond on a charge of felony child abuse for alleged injuries to his three-month-old son.

Oscar Daniel Estrada-Morales, 719 S. Bonita, pleaded not guilty to the charge March 17 in Kingfisher County District Court.

He is scheduled to return to court this week.

An Enid police officer contacted Hennessey Police Officer Edward Cangiano March 9, informing him of a possible child abuse case at Integris Bass Hospital, involving a Hennessey family seeking emergency care for their infant son, who had a swollen leg.

At the hospital, Estrada-Morales told Cangiano that he fell asleep while lying on the couch with the baby on his chest. When he rolled over, the baby fell off his chest and Estrada-Morales said he caught him by his leg and pulled him up before he hit the ground, according to Cangiano’s affidavit filed with the criminal charge.

The on-duty physician at the Enid ER told Cangiano that an x-ray showed a fracture on the baby’s leg that the doctor described as “suspicious,” according to the affidavit.

The doctor also told Cangiano that the fracture was not consistent with Estrada-Morales’ explanation of how the injury occurred.

A Department of Human Services child welfare worker who was dispatched to the hospital told Cangiano that the x-ray also was reviewed by a pediatrician who consults with DHS, who said in his opinion that the injuries to the baby were consistent with child abuse and that he observed another fracture on the x-ray in a different stage of healing, according to the affidavit.

The baby was referred to OU Children’s Hospital, where medical personnel told the DHS caseworker they noticed several more fractures and bruising to the child which they described as consistent with child abuse, according to the affidavit.

In a recorded conversation with the baby’s mother, Estrada-Morales then changed his account and said the baby actually hit the floor and stopped breathing, then recovered after the father administered CPR.

The second account also was not consistent with the injuries the baby suffered, according to the affidavit.

If convicted, Estrada-Morales faces a range of possible punishment from one year to life in prison and/or a fine of $500 to $5,000.