Durham couple charged with felony child abuse of 2-month-old

A day after police charged a woman with murder in her infant’s death, investigators arrested a man and woman on felony child-abuse charges stemming from when their 2-month-old son was brought to a hospital with broken bones and hemorrhaging in his eyes in September.

Jessica Naomi Watkins, 31, and Willie Lee Martin, 30, were charged with intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury and were each held in the Durham County Jail on $250,000 bail.

Medical officials contacted officials after the boy was brought to them in mid-September and had injuries that looked like they could have been from abuse, police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said.

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