A Bath County teen accused of dropping his five-month-old baby while running from deputies says that’s not what happened.
The sign at the house of Irvin Martin’s father is clear, “No Alcohol or Drugs.”
But last week Martin’s father said that rule was broken, “he’d been out drunk and came back drinking and I guess that’s what boiled up the fight with him and his girlfriend is him being out drinking.”
A fight he says took a scary turn when his son began to punch the wall. In efforts to calm him down, Martin’s father called the police.
From jail Martin told LEX18, in fear, he took his five-month-old baby and walked down the hill to his aunt’s house.
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When we spoke to Sheriff John Snedegar, last week, he said he saw Martin fall on top of the baby then pick the child up and keep running, “I was more scared for the baby, than I was for him, because it was squalling everything where it fell and hit the blacktop road and everything.”
But Martin says that’s a lie and that the sheriff wasn’t even there to see what really happened, “the baby was still in my arms like I fell on my back with the baby in my arms…to keep the baby from getting hurt.”
Martin’s father says later, he helped the sheriff take his son into custody, “me, my other son and another boy handcuffed him for the sheriff.”
But, Martin says he was beaten and tazed by other officers who later arrived, “he said he has a bruise right there on his arm but he’s like trying to say that I hit him or something but it’s from he choked me out so hard that I couldn’t even breathe.”
As it stands, Martin says he will not plead guilty to hurting his baby.
He faces charges including wanton endangerment, assault, and resisting arrest.
