Charles A. Lamb
GREENFIELD — A Greenfield man is facing more than a dozen charges after he was accused of beating and abusing a woman and an 18-month-old child in December.
Charles A. Lamb, 21, 300 block of South West Street, was arrested and booked into the county jail on Dec. 22.
Officials from the prosecutor’s office officially charged Lamb on Wednesday, Dec. 29, with two Level 5 felony counts of domestic battery; Level 6 felony counts of battery, intimidation, confinement and strangulation; and seven misdemeanor counts. The most serious charge carries a sentence of up to six years in prison.
Lamb made his initial appearance in Hancock County Superior Court 1, on Wednesday, Dec. 29. Judge D.J. Davis set a cash bond of $75,000 and issued a no-contact order against Lamb.
According to a probable cause affidavit, officials with the Greenfield Police Department were asked to investigate the case by officials from the Department of Child Services.
The report states an incident had occurred on the morning of Dec. 22 at the defendant’s home, resulting in an 18-month-old child and woman ending up at Community Hospital East.
Hospital officials called police. The child and woman were released from the hospital later that day.
The woman told police she and Lamb had gotten into an argument over his marijuana use, the affidavit said, The woman said Lamb punched her in the face, pulled her by the hair, knocked her to the ground and strangled her.
The woman said Lamb also grabbed the child’s playpack bed while the child was inside it and threw it across the room, the affidavit said. At one point in the altercation, the child hit his head on a wall, the affidavit said.
After continuing to hit and choke the woman to the point of her almost passing out, the man then struck the child in the head, the woman stated in the report.
Detectives noted the woman had suffered several bruises and lacerations.
The woman said she eventually was able to call her father, who took her to the hospital, but she said Lamb threatened to kill her family members if she reported what he had done to her and the child.
According to court documents, Lamb is facing similar charges in Marion County. He’s set for a change-of-plea hearing in that case in late January. He is currently an inmate in the county jail with a court date on the new charges set for late February.
