A father of nine beat his 2-year-old son severely enough to leave him brain dead, prosecutors said.
Angel Villegas appeared in bond court on Friday. He is charged with aggravated child abuse and attempted second-degree murder.
Prosecutors said Villegas threw his son, who had been vomiting while battling a cold for several days, onto the bed at their home in the 400 block of Southwest 4th Avenue in Homestead.
The boy hit his head against the wall and was declared brain dead.
"At this time, it is believed the child will not survive through the weekend," said an assistant state attorney.
Doctors at Miami Children's Hospital will continue to monitor Villegas' son.
Villegas had been arrested in other states and had a prior domestic violence case filed in Florida, prosecutors said.
Villegas has been ordered to stay away from his son at the hospital and wear a GPS monitoring device if he can come up with the 10 percent of his $110,000 bond to get out of jail.
Scheduled to appear in court again next week, Villegas could face additional charges.
His next door neighbor, Raul Gonzalez, told Local 10's Baron James that Villegas shook his son too much.
"They fight everyday, and I tell them what happened over there? I can't sleep, you fight over there all day and night," said Gonzalez. "He was shaking the baby, kicking the baby, outside he was kicking the baby over there. He was bam, bam."
Meanwhile, his other eight children are in the custody of his wife. There is no word yet on the family having any history with DCF.
"The defendant poses a threat and harm to the community," said prosecutor Adam Luna Gunneroff.