Pulumataala Ala Soga Eli, 32, who has no permanent local address, was charged today with first-degree assault and is being held in lieu of $150,000 bail. Eli surrendered to police Saturday at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children Pediatric Intensive Care Unit where the infant is being treated for severe injuries.

According to an affidavit filed at District Court, the child's 16-year-old mother told police she and Eli were arguing in a parked van at Ala Moana Beach Park on Wednesday at 7 p.m. and that he blamed the infant for the argument.

Eli allegedly struck the child twice on her forehead with an open hand, grabbed the child from her car seat by the left arm and threw her to the back of the van, the mother said. He then picked the child up and threw her several more times before grabbing the car seat and throwing it at the infant, she added.

It was at that point the child stopped breahting, the mother said.

The couple took the child to Kapi'olani hospital's emergency room, where Eli allegedly told his girlfriend to say the child fell out of his hands and left.

Police were called by the hospital due to the child's suspicious injuries, which included old fractures of the left ribs and a fractured knee.