By Ray King
A $100,000 bond was set Friday for a White Hall man accused of injuring a three-week-old child.
Special Judge Phillip Green set the bond after ruling prosecutors have probable cause to charge Tyler Phillips, 20, with first-degree domestic battery.
Reading from an affidavit from Detective Keith Banks, Deputy Prosecutor Maxie Kizer said on Wednesday, police received a call from the child abuse hotline reporting that a three-week-old baby girl had been taken to Jefferson Regional Hospital and then transferred to Arkansas Children’s Hospital with signs of abuse.
Banks reported that when Phillips was questioned, he claimed that he had been holding the child and had slipped.
Phillips was ordered to have no contact with the child until the case is settled and told to come back to court Feb. 3.
