A Dickson County judge sentenced William Brent Jones to 10 years in the Tennessee Department of Corrections after finding statutory enhancement factors outweighed mitigation in the case of a 4-month-old infant who sustained multiple fractures and a brain injury.

Jones pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated child abuse and acknowledged facts the state said it would present at trial. A state social worker and a Vanderbilt children’s care-team physician told investigators they found fractures and brain bleeding inconsistent with a single accidental fall. The court’s pre-sentence report cited fractures in multiple limbs, torn frenulum and seizures.

A probation and sentencing evaluation noted Jones’s medical history, including compression fractures and chronic pain, and the defense urged alternatives to confinement, noting Jones’s health conditions and lack of recent criminal record apart from a 2009 DUI. The state urged a significant prison term, emphasizing the age of the victim, the severity of the injuries and the risk to infants entrusted to a caregiver.

The judge found four enhancement factors applicable, including the victim’s vulnerability, the seriousness of the injuries and abuse of a position of trust, and declined to impose probation or community corrections. The judge imposed a 10-year sentence to be served in the Tennessee Department of Corrections and ordered the defendant remanded to begin his sentence.