SALINE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating a suspect for alleged child abuse.

Salina Regional Hospital staff called Police after treating an infant for burns to his lower extremities, according Police Captain Mike Sweeney.

The infant was suffering from 2nd degree burns on the lower legs that may have occurred while the child was in the care of 27-year-old Michael Bryant at a south Salina home.

Bryant was arrested and booked into the Saline County Jail on a requested charge of child abuse, inhuman corporal punishment.

The child was transferred to the burn unit at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita for further treatment, according to Sweeney.