A Garrard County couple is behind bars, accused of abusing a one-month-old child.
The boy’s 19-year-old mother, Amanda Cole and her 30-year-old boyfriend, Larry Delaney were arrested over the weekend and charged with assault and wanton endangerment.
“He’s a loving child,” said Roscoe Cole, who identified the victim as his grandson, Joseph Cole. “How does a 7-week-old baby get a fractured skull?… C’mon now, when a kid’s got a hand print and another bruise and a bruise on a rib, someone’s gotta know something.”
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Lancaster Police said, Friday night, a family member noticed unusual bruising on the boy and called for help. The boy was taken to Fort Logan Hospital in Lincoln County, where investigators determined the child had bruising to his ribs, back, and buttocks, along with a fractured skull.
“She was good with him,” said Cole. “I don’t know if [Larry] done it, but I don’t think, deep down inside, that he has a cruel heart like that.”
Amanda Cole and Larry Delaney were arrested at the hospital. Police said the boy had been living with the couple on South Campbell Street in Lancaster.
Roscoe Cole said he doesn’t believe his daughter is capable of harming her own child. “Whoever done that, I think, should come up and be a man and own up. You done it, why not be man enough to take the blame for it?”
“I love him and I want to hold him again and some day I will,” Roscoe Cole said.
Police told LEX 18, the 7-week-old was placed in the custody of the Department of Social Services. He is expected to be OK.
Amanda Cole and Larry Delaney declined LEX 18’s request for an interview from the Lincoln County Jail.
