article_snippet: boy wasn't found until New Year's Eve, but boy was badly beaten on Christmas and left the next day .
article_snippet: Flood was held on an unrelated misdemeanor charge after Cameron's body was found and has not been charged in relation to the child's death at this time.
article_snippet: The coroner said the child had bruises on the child lower back, kidneys and lungs, and bruises and scarring on the child buttocks.
article_snippet: the child mother initially told police His mother left the child on a stranger's porch but later changed His mother story, directing police to  Big Walnut Creek and providing more information about the man who had beaten His mother children.
article_snippet: the child injured the toddler on December 25, and when Stevens found the child unresponsive the following day, they put the child in the bag and left Cameron's body in the water nearby, the child said.
article_snippet: His mother also reported being beaten by the child and is now back in Maryland with His mother father.
highlights_snippet: Man injured the toddler on December 25 but boy wasn't found until the 31st .
  
highlights_snippet: boy had bruises on boy lower back, kidneys, lungs and buttocks .