Bond set for dad accused of severely beating 2-year-old son (Jasper County, Texas)

Dad is identified as ELVIN TYRONE COLLINS. Note that the injuries were observed by daycare workers, and that there is no mention of a mother here at all. Even for failure to protect. Is there a mother in this household? I always wonder when the media omits any mention of the one who actually gave birth to the child in question.

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT

http://www.kfdm.com/news/jasper-46791-child-newman.html

Bond set for father accused of beating, injuring son with belt
January 26, 2012 8:36 AM
Scott Lawrence

JASPER COUNTY - by Steve W. Stewart/KJAS - Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman said on Tuesday that a man is in custody, and accused of beating his 2-year-old child so severely with a belt that he left injuries on the toddler.

Sheriff Newman said the investigation began on Monday when workers at a Jasper day-care reported the injuries on the child.

According to Newman, Lieutenant Kenneth Stanley observed bruising on the boy's face, hands, buttocks and legs, and he also noted that the child's hands were swollen.

Newman said an investigator interviewed the child's father, later identified as 34-year-old Elvin Tyrone Collins, of Jasper, and Newman said Collins admitted that he did assault the boy.

Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Mike Smith issued a warrant for Collins and he was later arrested.

Collins appeared before Precinct 5 Justice of the Peace Brett Holloway on Wednesday and was officially charged with assault, and injury to a child with intent of bodily injury. His total bond was set at $50,000.00, and at last word he remained in the Jasper County Jail.