Dad charged with abusing 5-year-old daughter he had been watching for last month; girl in critical condition (Augusta, Georgia)

Dad is identified as WILLIE CLIFFORD JONES. Notice that Daddy had only been doing full-time child care for ONE MONTH before he flipped out on his daughter and gave her a serious brain injury. Usually "the grandmother" (paternal? maternal?) did the care, but she had been hospitalized for unspecified health reasons. So what happened to Mom???? Is she alive? If so, why doesn't she have custody? Did Dad flip out on her as well?

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-03-12/5-year-old-critical-condition-father-charged-child-cruelty?v=1331562371

5-year-old in critical condition; father charged with child cruelty
By Bianca Cain Johnson
Staff Writer
Monday, March 12, 2012 2:26 PM
Last updated 11:50 PM

A 5-year-old is in critical condition after being abused by her father Sunday night, police said.

Investigators were called to Doctors Hospital where the child had been brought around 9 p.m. after she became unresponsive in her father’s home on the 2900 block of Gordon Highway. The child was transported to Medical College of Georgia with a brain bleed.

Her father, Willie Clifford Jones, 22, was jailed today on charges of first degree cruelty to children.

Police said Jones had been caring for the child during the past month while her grandmother, who she lives with, was having surgery.

Details are not being released on the object Jones used on the child. Police are also investigating the circumstances that led to the charge of abuse.