Police gave Richard Blythe, wanted for injuring a baby whose mother was jailed last week, the “opportunity to turn himself in” around the time Maudicella Cabello-Perez was arrested for failing to prevent the abuse.
As of press time on Tuesday, he had not done so.
Blythe, 19 and a resident of Kyle, pled guilty in 2016 to causing “serious bodily injury” to a child and was given deferred adjudication.
He is now named in a warrant issued by Justice of the Peace Maggie Moreno accusing him of causing rib and skull fractures to Cabello-Perez’s nine-month-old daughter and also squeezing the baby so hard that her liver was lacerated.
Commander Kelly Bomersbach of the San Marcos Police Department said allowing him to turn himself in was “the detective’s call,” adding that if he doesn’t surrender to authorities soon, the next step would be putting out a call for the public’s help in locating him.
She said his whereabouts are currently unknown. “We don’t know where he is or we would have him,” she said.
Bomersbach said the offer was made after Blythe was interviewed, but did not know when that occurred.
Cabello-Perez was taken into custody Jan. 10 for the state jail felony offense of abandoning/endangering a child by criminal negligence and was given a bond of $5,000. She was released from custody the next day.
Police were summoned to Dell Children’s Hospital Nov. 4 about the baby, who was admitted for vomiting but was found to have “three skull fractures, eight broken ribs in different stages of breakage, repair and re-break and lacerations to the liver,” Det. Robert Elrod wrote in his affidavit of probable cause for Cabello-Perez’s arrest.
The document says that she once walked in on Blythe squeezing the baby, and that he admitted to police he had engaged in behaviors including knocking the baby’s head into the side of her car seat and slamming her head into the car seat.
“We definitely want to get our hands on this guy,” Bomersbach said.
The baby remains hospitalized.
