Dad charged with felony child neglect for abusing infant son (Newport News, Virginia)

This sure sounds like a single father. No mention of a mother in the home. Custody/visitation situation?

Dad is identified as JOSEPH WAYNE BARKLEY.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/crime/dp-newport-news-father-child-neglect-charge-1115,0,3291903.story

Newport News: Father charged with child neglect after son injured

Joseph Wayne Barkley, 24, of Newport News, was charged by city police with felony child neglect and malicious assault after his son was injured and hospitalized two days earlier, police said.

By Andrea Castillo, Daily Press

4:58 p.m. EST, November 15, 2013

A 24-year-old Newport News man was arrested by city police Friday on child neglect and other charges after his son was injured two days earlier, police said.

Joseph Wayne Barkley, 24, of the 300 block of 49th Street, is at the Newport News City Jail without bond on felony child neglect and malicious assault charges after he was interviewed at police headquarters Friday, according to a Newport News Police Department news release.

About 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, police and medics were called to Barkley’s home, where he told them the baby had fallen from the bed. The child kept passing out while his father took him downstairs and then began vomiting once they were outside, the man told police.

Medics took the child to a local hospital before he was taken to the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, according to the release. Police later began an investigation and contacted Child Protective Services.