(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Yale man appeared by video from jail before a Payne County judge this week on charges of child abuse, domestic violence, attacking Yale Police Chief Phillip Kelly and spitting on Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy David Sloan, all on Dec. 19, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
Justin Howard Wilson, 25, was ordered held in the Payne County Jail on $3,000 bail pending a Jan. 22 court appearance, the spokesman said.
If convicted of all counts, Wilson could be given as much as a life prison term plus eight years, court records show.
Yale Assistant Police Chief Ken Moore was sent at 7:54 p.m. on Dec. 19 to Wilson’s residence on a report of an infant being assaulted, according to his affidavit.
A woman, who was holding her 9-month-old infant, “told me that Justin Howard Wilson had come home drunk, fell out of the vehicle he was a passenger in, and when she reached out a hand to help him up, Justin Wilson swung with a closed fist – striking both her and the baby knocking both to the ground,” Moore alleged in his affidavit.
The woman said that Wilson left and went to another residence where he “had grabbed another person’s baby and would not let him go,” Moore alleged in his affidavit.
The Yale police chief and two Payne County sheriff’s deputies went to that location, which Moore said he would detail in another report, the affidavit said.
Wilson was arrested by the Yale police chief, the affidavit said.
The baby was transported to the Stillwater Medical Center by Cushing ambulance, the affidavit said.
If convicted of striking the baby in the face and knocking it from its mother’s arms onto the ground, Wilson could be given as much as a life prison term for felony child abuse.
If convicted of hitting the baby’s mother, who lived in Wilson’s household, and knocking her to the ground, Wilson could be given as much as a one-year jail term for misdemeanor domestic assault and battery.
If convicted of hitting the Yale police chief, Wilson could be given as much as a five-year prison term for the felony of assault and battery on a police officer.
If convicted of spitting on Sheriff’s Deputy Sloan, Wilson could be given as much as a two-year prison term for the felony of placing a fluid on a police officer.
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