HUTCHINSON— A Reno County jury found a Kansas man accused of injuring and abuse of a child not guilty on Wednesday.

Alexis Silva, Hutchinson, was charged with reckless aggravated battery as well as two other alternate counts of abuse of a child.

The theory for the first abuse count included shaking the child. The second included cruel or inhuman corporal punishment.

The injuries to the child, according to doctors, consisted of a fracture to the left leg of the 3 month old, but also other injuries that included bruising on both cheeks, fractured ribs and retinal hemorrhaging in one eye, doctors testified would indicate possible shaking of the child.

The crimes charged against Silva were alleged to have occurred between September and October of 2013.

District Attorney Keith Schroeder said that some information that Silva may have abused the mother of the child, but says he couldn’t present that evidence.

He said the jury just didn’t find the mother of the child credible. He says we know the abuse occurred, we just couldn’t prove who did it. “The good news is that the child is not back in the home,” according to Schroeder.