Melrose Man Indicted on Charges of Throwing Infant Son Onto Sidewalk

The Melrose man accused of throwing his seven-week old son at the baby's mother—after which the infant subsequently landed face-first onto concrete — was indicted yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court, the Middlesex District Attorney Office announced in a press release on Friday afternoon.

Carlos Edwards, 33, with the baby’s mother outside her home on Cross Street in Malden on Wednesday, July 20.

The infant was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was treated for a traumatic head injury and multiple fractures and later released, the District Attorney's Office said in the release.

A Middlesex grand jury indicted Edwards Thursday on charges of assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury; assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon on a child under the age of 14; and reckless endangerment of a child.

The boy's grandmother, Charlene Nickerson, that before allegedly throwing his son, Edwards said to the boy's mother, "'Here's your baby, and I hope you both die.'”

After , Edwards was pending a dangerousness hearing in Malden District Court, where of the incident. At that hearing, Edwards was again .

He will be arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn on Monday, Sept. 19 at 9 a.m.