A year after a Cullman baby was taken to Cullman Regional with a severe head injury, the state’s long-awaited autopsy report has revealed the boy died from blunt force trauma that didn’t appear accidental.

James Lee Sanson, 1, died May 31, 2016 at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, two days after his caregivers, not his parents, took him to Cullman Regional with injuries that were not consistent with their account of how he was hurt, Cullman police said. 

The case will be presented to a Cullman County grand jury to consider whether to bring charges, said Assistant District Attorney Jeff Roberts Friday. 

Police said last year physicians who treated James at Children’s Hospital found his injuries could not have been caused accidentally and that there was no way the baby could have done anything to himself that would have caused the injuries that resulted in his death. No preexisting conditions that could have caused his death were found either. 

Cullman police and the Cullman County Department of Human Resources began investigating and questioning the adults who allegedly were with Sanson at the time he was hospitalized. Police have not identified his caregivers. 

“At the time that the injury likely occurred, James was in the care of two people who were not his parents. At the time James was taken to the hospital, they gave an account of what happened. As information developed and the extent of James’ injuries was realized, the account given by the caregivers was missing any explanation of how James was injured,” the police department’s 2016 news release stated.

The two refused to meet with police for a follow-up interview last year and reportedly hired an attorney despite no criminal charges being formally brought against them.