The parents of an infant child have been charged with aggravated child abuse or neglect after methamphetamine was discovered in their child’s system, according to a Cleveland Police Department news release.
Medical examinations also revealed the child had multiple skull fractures, broken bones and a brain bleed that required brain surgery.
Cleveland residents Nichols ODonnell, the father and Brittany Newman, the mother, tested positive for methamphetamine.
They are being held at the Bradley County Justice Center on $75,000 bond, the news release said.
The Department of Children’s Services and Cleveland police began a joint investigation after they were called to the Crown Inn Motel on South Lee Highway to check on the welfare of a two-month old child on January 4.