A Florida City father was arrested over the weekend and charged with many offenses, including the alleged violent beating of his two children, one of whom required emergency medical transport via helicopter to a nearby hospital.
According to his arrest record from the Florida City Police Department, the individual admitted to authorities that he had been using narcotics.
Sunday afternoon, police were called to an apartment at 340 NE First St., where they allegedly discovered two toddlers “crying and covered in blood.” Joshua Xaviar Jordan, 33, was quickly apprehended by law enforcement.
According to the report, the children’s mother informed police that her boyfriend Jordan was babysitting the kids while she was at work and that a neighbor had phoned to report that one of the kids had been hurt.
The complaint claims that Jordan’s son received treatment at the scene while his daughter was evacuated to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital with serious head injuries.
Another youngster, who was seemingly unhurt, told police that she and her siblings had been at home with their father when he “started acting erratic and screaming at them to call 911.” This was just before he proceeded to “repeatedly punch” her sister and brother.
After Jordan’s sister went outside for help, his daughter informed the police that their neighbor was attacked by Jordan.
According to the complaint, Jordan informed a neighbor he was “having a heart attack” and required him to call an ambulance while the guy was walking to his girlfriend’s apartment.
According to the complaint, Jordan began striking the guy while he dialed 911 and then “slammed him to the ground.”
According to the story, the girlfriend of one of the neighbors brought the girl inside her apartment, closed the door, and dialed 911.
It was said that when Jordan was being transported in the back of a patrol car, “he started being aggressive, kicking the windows,” prompting the officer to fire a stun gun.
The report indicates that when officers questioned Jordan at Homestead Hospital, he said he “smoked some ‘Molly,'” a slang name for MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, and so could not recall anything that had occurred.
The charges against him include two counts of severe child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury, as well as one count each of violence and resisting arrest. As of Tuesday morning, he was being detained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a bail of $14,500.