The parents of a 5-month-old are facing aggravated child abuse charges in a case that left their child in “bad, bad shape,” an official said Wednesday.

Limestone County District Attorney Brian Jones said 23-year-old Rolando Ordonez and 21-year-old Juana Zetino, both of 511 Horton St., Athens, are each charged with one count of aggravated child abuse. Jones said their infant daughter was transported to Athens-Limestone Hospital, and Limestone County Department of Human Resources was notified the child had signs of abuse, specifically Shaken Baby Syndrome.

Jones described the 5-month-old infant as being in “bad, bad shape.” She was ultimately transported to Huntsville Hospital, then to Children’s s Hospital in Birmingham, he said. Her current condition is unknown.

Athens Police Department investigated the case and presented it directly to the Limestone County grand jury, Jones said. Ordonez and Zetino were arrested June 23 on warrants from the indictment.

They remained in the Limestone County Jail on Wednesday with bail set at $50,000 each.

According to state law, a person commits the Class C felony crime of aggravated child abuse if they are convicted of torturing, willfully abusing, cruelly beating or otherwise willfully maltreating any child under age 18. However, the law further states anyone who commits the crime on more than one occasion, in violation of a court order concerning the person or victim, or in a way that causes serious physical injury to the child is guilty of a Class B felony. If the child is under 6, it’s a Class A felony.

Zetino and Ordonez, if convicted, could face prison sentences of 10 to 99 years, or life, in prison.