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PHOTO: Vince Luecke

Coy Smith, 23, of 311 Main St., Apartment 5 in Tell City is escorted by Tell City Police Patrolman Roger Smith from that city's police department to the county jail Saturday morning.

UPDATE: Police say battered infant clinging to life

(Updated at 1:40 p.m. May 14)

TELL CITY – A Tell City infant continued to battle for her life Monday after she was allegedly battered by her father.

Four-month-old Ashlyn Groves was being treated at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Ky., with a fractured skull, facial bruises and other injuries. The child was flown to Louisville early Saturday from Perry County Memorial Hospital.

Police charged her father, 23-year-old Coy W. Smith, of 311 Main St., Apartment 5, with battery resulting in serious bodily injury to a child.