A 22-year-old New Hampshire woman is facing criminal charges after her infant child was brought to the hospital with several bone fractures, police said.
Jade Galford, of Keene, N.H., was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree assault, police said. She was held without bail pending her arraignment in the 8th Circuit Court.
Police said they were notified Tuesday that an infant has been hospitalized with several fractures “in various stages of healing.” Officials from the state’s Division for Children, Youth and Families determined that the fractures appeared suspicious.
The case is under investigation by local police with the assistance of child protection specialists from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.
No further information was immediately available.
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