Injuries to infant result in charges for couple
By NewsPress Now
Two St. Joseph residents face charges after a 10-month-old was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Antonio Campos, 25, is charged with abuse or neglect of a child, and Hayley Sharp, 30, is charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Probable cause statements state the two were in a relationship and living with Sharp’s four children, including the infant, from July 28 to Aug. 9. When the 10-month-old was returned to her father, he saw several bruises which led him to take the child to Children’s Mercy Hospital. Medical personnel found the child had several injuries in various stages of healing, including a brain bleed, fractured leg and genital injuries, according to court documents.
The probable cause statement says a forensic download of Campos’ phone revealed searches for terms including “my gfs baby got hurt what do i do” and “how do they do dna on a baby from secusl assault.” He also had been left alone with the children several times and no one else came to the home regularly, according to court documents.
At the time the St. Joseph infant’s injuries were discovered, Campos was on furlough from Ray County where he faces five counts of abuse or neglect of a child in a 2022 case.
Court documents in that case allege Campos caused brain bleeding, broken ribs, lacerations to the liver and spleen, a fractured arm and a broken leg in an 8-week-old boy sometime between Aug. 4 and Oct. 3, 2022. Those injuries also were reported by staff at Children’s Mercy.
Sharp was aware of the 2022 charges against Campos but dismissed warnings and allowed the man to be alone with her children and also lied about facts that hindered the investigation, an officer alleged in a probable cause statement in her case.
Campos’ furlough has been revoked and he is currently in the Ray County Jail without bond. He appeared in a Ray County courtroom Wednesday morning for a hearing in the 2022 case and is scheduled for a plea or trial setting at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 9. No hearings for him are scheduled in Buchanan County.
Sharp is being held without bond in the Buchanan County Jail. She is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 11.
