Infant “in safe environment” after parents’ arrest

A young couple in the Foxwood Hills subdivision of Oconee has been arrested in a Sheriff’s Officefour-week investigation of child abuse.  Caroline Shaw and Travis Robert William Nix were charged with unlawful neglect of a child.  Officers say they discovered the 12-week old boy in the emergency room of the hospital and determined that he had suffered arm, ankle, and mid-section injuries.  The infant has since been removed from his home to what the Sheriff’s Office called “a safe environment.”