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Springfield police said in January that they spoke with the mother of the child and a witness who told them they left the child with Williams and when they returned home were informed by Williams that the child was “spanked.”
“Mr. Williams advised them when they walked into door that he had spanked (the child) due to she took off her diaper,” a police affidavit says. “He advised that she might have bruises.”
But when the women took the child for a bath, they allegedly found extensive bruising and called police, according to court records. The child was taken to a hospital by medics.
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