Dad Who Threw Infant Receives 5 Years

A Melrose man was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday after a jury found he threw his infant son on the ground with force in Malden last summer.

Carlos Edwards, 35, on all charges of assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a child under 14, and reckless endangerment of a child.

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Diane Kottmeyer sentenced the defendant to five years in state prison on the charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a child under 14.  

On the charges of assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury and reckless endangerment, the defendant was sentenced to three years probation from and after his prison sentence, with conditions to complete a batterer’s program and comply with all orders of the juvenile and probate courts. 

The child remains in state custody.