UPDATE - State media is reporting that one of the twin infants in Clay County that was severely injured at the hands of her father Richard Osborne, 29, is improving.
The 7-week-old had been unresponsive in a Charleston hospital since Tuesday, but has now started eating and has been moved out of ICU.
The girl's twin sister remains in the ICU and is also responsive.
The twins had several broken bones and bleeding on their brains, which doctors said was the result of severe shaking.
Police Osborne squeezed the babies to get them to stop crying.
ORIGINAL STORY - State Police have charged a Wallback, Clay County man with severely injuring his infant twin daughters.
Authorities say Richard Solomon Osborne, 29, "violently grabbed the infants as they were crying and held them tightly against his chest," causing several broken bones and bleeding to the brain.
Osborne has been charged with child abuse causing injury, a felony. He is being held in Central Regional Clay with bond set at $160,000.
CAMC Women and Children's Hospital called State Police at the Clay Detachment about the injuries.
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