Father charged with abusing 6-month-old baby now in custody

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — TUESDAY UPDATE: Randy Hughes is now in custody.

A Washington County father is wanted for his abusing his 6-month-old baby.

The baby spent days in Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh after her mother went to change her diaper and saw the girl's entire stomach covered in bruises.

Police are now actively searching for the baby's father, Randy Hughes. Investigators said he disappeared a few days after the abuse.

Police said Hughes was watching the baby and other older children at their home while the baby's mother was at work.

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According to the criminal complaint, when his wife confronted him about the bruises she found, he said he was "going to jail." But when doctors questioned him, he said the baby fell from the bad and that he saw a 4-year-old "run" from the room right after.

Doctors said the baby has nine broken ribs, two broken legs, lacerated liver, internal bleeding and bruising about her left eye and right ear.

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The emergency room doctor told police she would have been in "substantial pain for multiple days and could have had a life-threatening hemorrhage from the liver laceration" and that it was not from a fall or another child

Hughes faces arrest on felony aggravated assault and child endangerment charges.

The baby had a follow-up appointment at Children's Hospital on Monday and doctors said she is healing very well.

The mother passed a polygraph test and police said they believe she had nothing to do with the abuse.

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