A 35-year-old Raleigh man is being held without bond after police say a 10-month-old boy suffered serious injuries to his kidney, liver, ribs and more while in his care earlier this month. Cameron Lavar Robertson was arrested Tuesday and charged with intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury, according to a warrant, after the infant, who is the son of Robertson's girlfriend, was hurt on August 14 while Robertson was looking after him.
According to CBS 17, the warrant states the infant boy suffered serious injuries to his right kidney, his liver, and multiple ribs. Robertson was arrested Tuesday, and the Raleigh Police Department accuses him of assaulting the child on August 14. He made his first appearance in Wake County court on Wednesday, where a judge denied him bond on the child abuse charge.
That denial lines up with how North Carolina's Pretrial Integrity Act, enacted in October 2023, requires district court judges to apply stricter scrutiny when setting bail for people accused of serious violent felonies, according to Jetton & Meredith, PLLC. Under North Carolina General Statute § 14-318.4, intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury requires proof that the injury created a substantial risk of death, permanent disfigurement, or a prolonged condition causing extreme pain or organ impairment, per FindLaw. It is not clear from available records whether the infant's current medical condition or long-term recovery outlook has been disclosed.
A Second Case Tied to a 2024 Forged Check
Robertson's court troubles did not stop with the child abuse charge. The same day he appeared in court, he was also served with another Raleigh police warrant connected to a 2024 fraud case, the station's report notes. Investigators accuse him of depositing a forged check into his State Employees Credit Union account that year and then withdrawing $5,525 from the fraudulent funds.
The check itself was allegedly written for $39,416, according to the same account. Robertson faces charges of obtaining property under false pretenses and uttering a forged instrument in connection with that 2024 incident, and he was given a $15,000 secured bond on those fraud charges specifically.
Under North Carolina General Statute § 14-100, obtaining property by false pretenses involving amounts under $100,000 is a Class H felony carrying up to 39 months in prison, per Powers Law Firm. Uttering a forged instrument, meanwhile, is classified as a Class I felony under state law, as explained by Justia Law. State Employees' Credit Union, one of North Carolina's largest public credit unions, has separately been at the center of other check-fraud enforcement efforts; federal prosecutors indicted four men in September 2025 over an unrelated scheme targeting SECU accounts, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Case Joins a String of Wake County Child Abuse Prosecutions
Robertson is scheduled to appear in Wake County court again on September 9 to face both the child abuse case and the fraud case, though it remains unclear how prosecutors plan to schedule the two matters going forward. It is also not publicly known whether Wake County Child Protective Services had any prior contact with the household before this month's arrest.
This case follows a pattern of severe child abuse prosecutions Wake County authorities have pursued in recent months. In June, a Garner father was charged after a 2-year-old suffered head and spinal trauma requiring emergency brain surgery, and in April, a Raleigh daycare teacher was booked after allegedly fracturing a toddler's leg. That same month, two Raleigh parents were arrested after a teenager was found confined in a dog kennel alongside other children living in severe medical neglect.
Wake County Child Protective Services fielded 9,349 reports of suspected child abuse or neglect in 2023 alone, with nearly 5,000 escalated to social worker assessments, according to Wake County Government. State law mandates that all adults and institutions report suspected child abuse or neglect directly to county social services or law enforcement, and Wake County maintains a 24/7 intake system to field those reports.
