Additional charges filed

The police in Seneca are announcing additional charges in their investigation of a case of child abuse.  Chief John Covington said an arrest warrant details the additional charge of inflicting serious bodily injury on a child against Leroy Lee Morris, in whose care the infant was left.  The child’s mother, Whitney Barnwell, has also been charged.  According to Covington, Barnwell is the mother of the hospitalized infant and two other children and has been charged with three instances of unlawful conduct toward a child.  The injured infant, with multiple broken bones, was reported in critical condition this week at a Greenville hospital.