Probation Violations Land Man in Jail after Recklessly Breaking 3-Year-Old's Leg

A 27-year-old man charged with four counts of injury to a child with serious bodily injury was jailed on Monday on a motion to revoke probation warrant.

Abel Ray Rios was booked into the county jail by Tom Green County Sheriff’s Deputies at 4:36 p.m., due to a warrant issued following numerous violations to his probation, which included an arrest for assault family violence.

Rios was sentenced to five years probation on Oct. 14, 2010, when he pled guilty to two charges of injury to a child reckless serious bodily injury, a second-degree felony. In exchange for the guilty plea, both first-degree injury to a child with intentional serious bodily injury charges were dropped.

Court documents indicate that the offense occurred on Jan. 6, 2010, when Rios allegedly picked up a 3-year-old girl to prevent her from running outside and “tossed” her to the couch. The little girl missed the couch and hit the floor, the document states, and was later taken to Community Hospital for a broken leg.

“…the victim has a spiral fracture which is common with some type of twisting motion to the break and not consistent with the story told by the defendant,” San Angelo Police Detective Brian Elkins wrote in his complaint.

After being placed on probation, a violation report was issued that stated Rios had failed to make payments and failed to report an assault family violence incident that occurred on July 2, 2012. Rios was not jailed on that date, however on Sept. 26, 2014, he was picked up and jailed for assault family violence.

A motion to revoke probation was filed on Dec. 4, and on Dec. 15, Rios was put behind bars. He is being held in lieu of a $10k bond for one of the charges.