LAKEPORT, Calif. – Charges have been filed against a Lakeport couple arrested last week for felony unlawful corporal injury to a child.

Charles Anthony Dougherty, 31, and Jennifer Lynn Elsa, 32, were arrested last Thursday for allegedly striking and injuring Dougherty's 5-year-old daughter on the evening of July 4, as Lake County News has reported.

The Lakeport Police Department, whose officers took the couple into custody, reported late Monday night that the District Attorney's Office has filed charges against Dougherty and Elsa.

The felony charges against them include willfully and unlawfully inflicting cruel and inhuman corporal punishment and injury, resulting in a traumatic condition, upon a child, police said.

Additionally, Dougherty was charged with one count of “under circumstances and conditions other than those likely to produce great bodily harm and death, willfully and unlawfully inflicting on a child of 5 years, unjustifiable physical pain and mental suffering and injure, cause and permit said child to suffer,” the Lakeport Police Department reported.

The agency thanked its officers and the District Attorney's Office staff for their work on this investigation.

Dougherty and Elsa remained in custody on Monday day, with bail for each set at $75,000, jail records indicated.