Overview
- Prosecutors said Friday that 34-year-old Jillian Timmons was arraigned in Brockton District Court on two felony counts of assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and one count of reckless endangerment and pleaded not guilty.
- Authorities ordered Timmons held on $100,000 cash bail and issued a no-contact order that bars her from the infant and the child’s father if she is released.
- Medical staff at Boston Children’s Hospital found severe, several-days-old brain bleeds they said were consistent with blunt-force trauma and told investigators the injuries could leave the baby unable to walk, speak, feed, or care for herself.
- The investigation began after a mandated reporter at South Shore Hospital alerted authorities when Timmons brought the roughly 8-week-old to the hospital on July 17 with a core temperature of 93°F and bruising on both sides of her face, and detectives say Timmons gave inconsistent accounts to investigators.
- Timmons’s defense lawyer says there is no evidence she harmed the child and suggested someone else could be responsible while police continue to probe and the child’s father remains hospitalized and unresponsive with no public link established to the injuries.