Overview
- Christopher Leon Jenkins, 26, appeared in court Monday for a probable-cause hearing and is being held without bond in the Harris County Jail.
- Charges were filed Friday and he was arrested over the weekend, in a case that follows a July 2025 emergency at a Baytown apartment.
- First responders on July 25, 2025 found the infant unclothed on a mattress, not breathing, with pink fluid at the mouth, and the baby died at a hospital on Aug. 1, 2025.
- Doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital treated the child for a brain bleed and cardiac arrest and concluded abuse occurred, and an autopsy later found fatal blunt force head trauma.
- Court records say Jenkins gave conflicting accounts, reenacted the event by throwing a doll onto a bed, and said he grew angry at the baby’s crying, as the case now proceeds with a court-appointed defender.