This follow-up to a story we aired April 3rd about a Twentynine Palms man who had been arrested for child abuse. According to the Sheriff’s
Department, Child and Family Services had removed a 3-year-old girl from the custody of Otis Flemings, 30, on November 3, 2017. CFS noticed
numerous bruises on the girl and took her to the emergency room at Loma Linda Medical Center. Doctors determined she had bruised buttocks,
bruised ears, multiple scabbed lesions and scars, bilateral retinal hemorrhages, and a deep brain injury. On March 21, the District Attorney’s
office filed 10 charges against Flemings. Otis Flemings was arrested March 30 for corporal injury to a child, child endangerment, two counts of inflicting great bodily injury on a child, and six felony enhancements, booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with his bail set at $450,000.
