A father has entered a plea in a case of alleged abuse that sent his infant son to the pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital in Orlando.
Drew Oldenburg, 26, entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of aggravated child abuse on Thursday in Lake County Court. He remained jailed this weekend on $25,000 bond at the Lake County Jail.
The baby had been transferred May 20 to the Orlando hospital from Leesburg Regional Medical Center. A tube had to be placed in the baby’s skull to drain blood that had accumulated around his brain, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. The attending physician said the baby’s injury was the “equivalent of a high-speed vehicle accident.”
The baby previously had been admitted May 7 to Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital after suddenly turning “limp and white.” The baby was released May 10. Medical examinations indicated the child suffered “an episode of abusive head trauma” likely before the first visit to the hospital, the arrest report said.
Lake County Court records also show that a woman other than the mother of the baby Oldenburg allegedly injured, had taken Oldenburg to court seeking support for a child they had in common.
