ROME, Ga. — By the time she was six weeks old, a Rome baby had already suffered 29 broken bones. Now, nearly a year later, her parents are facing child abuse charges.
According to a Feb. 2024 police report, Rome police were called to Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center after a woman and her grandmother brought in a baby with a broken leg and bruises on her face.
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The nurse who called police told them that the mother, Savannah Cox, kept changing her story. She initially asked if the child could have gotten the injuries from a fall, but later asked if the child could have gotten the injuries from someone dropping her.
Cox told police that she had taken the baby to a pediatric appointment that morning, but she had slept the rest of the day. She said that the broken leg may have happened during the doctor’s visit that morning.
Employees told police that a full body scan of the baby found several other fractures across both her legs, her right arm, ribs, right shoulder and more. According to the arrest warrants, the child had a total of 29 fractures, some fresh and others in different stages of healing.
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Cox, her parents and the child’s father, Shane Moore, live together with the couple’s two children. DFCS took both children into protective custody.
After nearly a year of gathering evidence, both Cox and Moore were arrested on charges of cruelty to children and aggravated assault earlier this week.
They are being held in the Floyd County Detention Center.
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