- November 14, 2024
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A man charged with slamming a 4-year-old boy's head against a carpeted concrete floor is incompetent to stand trial, Circuit Judge Matthew Foxman found at a Wednesday, April 27 competency hearing.
Christopher Craig "Kodak" Williams, 22, was charged with aggravated child abuse in connection with the Dec. 12, 2015 incident.
He will remain at a sate psychiatric hospital for treatment with the goal of restoring him to competency so he can stand trial, State Attorney's Office spokesman Spencer Hathaway said.
The little boy was airlifted to Shands Medical Center in Gainesville with severe head injuries after the incident, which caused him to have a seizure and bleed from his ear, according to a Sheriff's Office news release.
Three young girls in the house told deputies that the little boy had been playing with a door, pushing it from side to side, when Williams came home and got mad at the boy, then picked him up by both arms and slammed him to the floor.
"I was a hard slam, it was a hard one," one of the girls said, according to a deputy's report. The girl told the deputy that the boy began crying and bleeding from his ear, and that she tried to stop the bleeding with paper towels. The two other girls gave statements that supported her account.
