Pembroke Pines dad said baby choked on formula, but injuries showed ‘violent shaking,’ cops say

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — A Pembroke Pines man is facing two felony charges after police said his baby daughter was left with lasting injuries from “violent shaking.”

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Pembroke Pines police said Antonio Lee Rogers, 27, claimed the girl had choked on formula.

According to an arrest warrant authored on July 22, Rogers called 911 on Oct. 10, 2025 to report the “choking,” saying that the 4-month-old “was not breathing and her mouth was turning blue.”

Medics took the girl to Memorial Hospital Miramar in critical condition, the warrant states. Police said she was “lifeless” upon arriving at the emergency room but doctors were able to intubate and revive her.

According to the warrant, she was later taken to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital and doctors determined that the girl’s injuries, which included a traumatic brain injury with a brain bleed, were not consistent with Rogers’ claim that she choked on formula.

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Authorities said medical imaging showed that she older brain bleed injuries that indicated a prior incident of shaking.

Now under the care of her grandmother, the girl still requires “extensive medical treatment due to her injuries,” including “home health nursing,” according to police.

Records show police took Rogers into custody on Wednesday on charges of aggravated child abuse and child neglect with great bodily harm.

As of Friday, he was being held without bond in the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach.

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