|Big Radio News|
A 29-year-old Beloit man is charged with felony child abuse and bail jumping.
According to the criminal complaint, Beloit Police were dispatched to Robinson Elementary School on June 4th on the report that the school school social worker had found a bruised on a six-year-old’s leg and suspected child abuse.
The child’s grandfather came to pick him up and disclosed that the day before he had run up to him crying and saying that he had just been beaten by his father, Jayvon Wimberly.
The grandfather told police that Wimberly had beaten the child with a belt in the past, and that it was how he disciplined children.
Officers photographed several rectangular-shaped bruises on the child that were consistent with being hit with a belt.
At the time of the incident, Wimberly was out on bail for an active battery and disorderly conduct domestic abuse case.
Wimberly made his initial appearance on the child abuse charged last week where he was given a signature bond, ordered not to have contact with the victim, and also ordered not to use corporal punishment of any kind.
