By Neil Doyle and Howard Packowitz
BLOOMINGTON – A 27-year-old Bloomington man has been accused of critically injuring a 5-month old child.
Jordan Powe was taken into custody Thursday by Bloomington Police. He was charged Friday by the McLean County State’s Attorney’s Office with aggravated domestic battery and aggravated battery of a child under 13 years old that caused a permanent disability.
According to Powe’s probable cause statement, he is the biological father of the Five-month-old infant.
BPD said officers were called Tuesday around 1:30 p.m. to a residence on Willedrob Road in Bloomington for an unresponsive 5-month old child. The child was taken to OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, then was transported to OSF Children’s Hospital in Peoria where the child remains in critical condition. Authorities said the incident is still under investigation.
During a mirandized interview, Powe admitted becoming frustrated with the infant because he was crying and not drinking his milk.
The statement says that Powe picked up the infant and shook him forcefully for approximately 30 seconds, laid the infant back in a bed and left him alone for approximately an hour.
The infant remains in the pediatric ICU and on a ventilator, continues to have seizures and is unable to move the right side of his body.
Long-term prognosis is currently unknown.
Powe is being held on a $400,000 cash bond.
This child is said to have been injured about the same time a McLean County jury returned guilty verdicts in the murder trial of Cynthia Baker, the woman from Normal convicted of beating 8-year-old stepdaughter Rica Rountree to death last January.
Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]
Howard Packowitz can be reached at [email protected]
