A Saxonburg man is being held in Armstrong County Jail after charges were filed Monday accusing him of assaulting his girlfriend’s 11-month-old child.

“(The doctor) advised that all the injuries the child sustained are consistent with recent physical abuse just prior to being admitted to that facility,” said police in charging documents.

Kiski Township Police filed charges against Jacob T. Rupert, 24, of Saxonburg, including felony counts of aggravated assault on a child, aggravated assault and child endangerment, as well as misdemeanor simple assault. He is being held on $50,000 bond.

According to charging documents, Armstrong County 911 called police around noon April 11 to the scene of a medical emergency on Aspen Drive, Kiski Township, involving an 11-month-old girl with a head injury.

“Rupert was caring for the child and said that he picked up the child from the couch and transferred her to the crib,” police said. “Rupert said he later checked on the child when he noticed the child was unconscious and limp, and (he) immediately called 911.”

An ambulance took the girl to a nearby landing zone, and she was then flown to UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. The girl would spend two separate stints in the hospital, spanning at least four days.

Doctors handed over a combined list of injuries to authorities, including vertebral compression fractures in three sections and a skull fracture, as well as swelling, bruising and abrasions around the child’s head and face.

Police said they conducted multiple interviews with the girl’s mother, who had been working at the time of her daughter’s injury. Police said she told officers she and Rupert were having a rough patch in their relationship.

“According to (the mother), she was planning on ending the relationship and conveyed this information the weekend prior to this incident to Rupert,” police said. “(The mother) stated that Rupert was controlling and obsessive during their relationship.”

The mother told officers she had to pick Rupert up from a job site in Virginia where he was working, after she received a call that Rupert was threatening to hurt himself.

She told police she, Rupert and her daughter returned late April 10, and despite their issues, she still trusted Rupert to watch her daughter while she and her mother, who they were staying with, went to work.

Police said Rupert informed the mother during a FaceTime that something was wrong with her daughter. Police said she left her job in Murrysville and arrived just in time to see her daughter loaded into a medical helicopter.

Police also interviewed grandparents and babysitters who cumulatively offered earlier instances of the girl appearing with bruises that had other explanations at the time.

According to cumulative statements, the girl had appeared with bruising following an incident in December and again after a vehicle crash in February. According to the witnesses, Rupert claimed the bruises in December were from the girl falling on a dog crate, and the latter incident was related to the crash.

“When asked if she believed Rupert, (the girl’s mother) said she did before, but now she does not,” police said.

Police said they talked with Rupert’s attorney April 12, and the attorney told officers Rupert would not speak with them about the incident.

Police said they reviewed Rupert’s 911 call.

“During the call, you can hear Rupert wanting to get off the phone with the 911 operators as he claims, ‘her (the child’s mother) is 30 seconds away,’” police said.

A preliminary hearing for Rupert is scheduled July 6 before District Judge James Andring in Leechburg, Armstrong County.