Wolverhampton parents in court after baby found with broken ribs

The child was taken to hospital aged 11 weeks on August 25, 2015 after a social worker visited the family's home in Merridale Street West, Wolverhampton, and saw that he was not moving his right arm.

The city's crown court heard this week how x-rays revealed a fracture to his right humerus, four fractured ribs and other healing fractures.

The boy's father, Luke Davis, aged 20, of Merridale Street, Wolverhampton, and mother, Cylyna Fedynych, 19, from Cannock Road, also in the city, deny causing or allowing serious harm to a child.

Miss Sally Hancox, prosecuting, said the injuries had been categorised as 'non-accidental' by doctors. And they had not been explained by his parents 'to any acceptable level', she added.

She added the couple, aged 19 and 18 at the time of the alleged offences, had told the social worker that the mother had tumbled down stairs with the boy in her arms around a week before her visit.

Miss Hancox said both defendants told police officers this when interviewed, adding that the boy had remained on his mother's chest during the fall and had not appeared to be injured.

"The fractures and kind of injuries the boy suffered were such they would have been noticed such would be his reaction and response to being injured in that way. Put bluntly there would have been tears and grizzling.

"It would have been noticeable to them he had been hurt in a serious and significant way."

The court heard that the boy's parents met in 2013 and had the baby in June 2015.

Miss Hancox said they agreed to five visits each week from a support worker, two of which would be unannounced.

It was during the visit on August 25, 2015 that the social worker raised concerns about the boy's arm and called 999.

Miss Hancox said: "The parents either caused the injuries to the boy or they allowed them to happen while he was in their care."

The trial continues.