RALEIGH -- Jacqueline Patricia Williams called 911 late last month to report what appeared to be a case of child neglect involving her 17-year-old daughter and 1-year-old grandson at her North Raleigh apartment.
"He's lying here on the floor soaking wet," Williams told the dispatcher, "and she's asleep. She won't take care of her baby."
But when Raleigh police and detectives arrived at Williams' apartment at 6612-C Lake Hill Drive, near Falls of Neuse Road, they noticed the little boy's legs were "giving him some pain," Jim Sughrue, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
The child was taken toWakeMed in Raleigh where doctors determined that the child had suffered multiple fractures to both legs, he said.
Police at first charged Williams' daughter, Princess Angelina Zamot, with neglect, but the charges were upgraded to one count of intentional child abuse causing serious bodily injury after detectives spoke with doctors at Wake Med and consulted with the Wake County District Attorney's Office, Sughrue said.
Investigators think Zamot intentionally fractured the tibia and fibula in both legs of the child, according to arrest warrants.
The child remains a patient at WakeMed and is in the custody of the county's social services department.
Police say the incident occurred April 28, between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. at the apartment Zamot shares with her mother at the Lakes apartment complex, records show.
Jacqueline Williams, the child's grandmother, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Zamot is being held in the Wake County jail, her bail set at $200,000.
