Baby Dies After Dad Daniel Cox Seen Allegedly Beating Him While Driving

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ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky man who police say was seen driving down a highway beating an infant in a car seat has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of his 4-month-old son.

The News-Enterprise reports a Hardin County grand jury indicted 35-year-old Daniel Antoine Cox of Radcliff on Thursday on a charge of murder-domestic violence in the death of Jayceon Chrystie. Cox is in jail, with his bail set at $500,000. Online jail records did not indicate whether he has a lawyer.

Court records say witnesses called 911 on Aug. 6 after seeing a man repeatedly hitting a child in a car seat while driving along a highway. After Cox left the unresponsive infant with the baby's mother, she frantically called police.

Kimberly Ann Chrystie requested an order of protection Friday for her 4-month-old son, according to court documents, but her filing came too late.

The baby died the next day.

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 In her court filing, Chrystie said Cox returned the child "all beat up" after having him for only a couple of hours.

"I called 911 as soon as I seen my son," she said in the document.

Jayceon was not breathing and had no pulse, court documents show. Emergency medics tried to resuscitate the baby, who was taken to Hardin Memorial Hospital.

Police wrote that Jayceon's left eye was swollen shut, his right cheek was swollen and he had "major bruising on his back and buttocks."

Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Robert Fraction told The Associated Press on Sunday that Jayceon died of an "inflicted traumatic injury to the head."

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