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Man Arrested in Death of Central Texas Infant

A man has been arrested in Waco on charges of injury to a child as Bell County authorities continue to investigate the December death of a 9-month-old boy.

A justice of the peace recommended Friday holding John David Clark on $650,000 bond.

Clark was identified as the boyfriend of the mother of Weston Lyle Marthers, of Little River-Academy. Clark brought the infant to a Temple hospital Nov. 30. The child died days later and Sheriff Eddy Lange said an autopsy determined the death a homicide caused by blunt head trauma.

The Temple Daily Telegram reported Lange in December said the boy's mother was at work when Clark took her son to the hospital.

Medical examiners described the injury as worse than if he fell from a two-story building.

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