(KNZA)--The preliminary hearing for a Hiawatha man facing charges in a Brown County child abuse case has been continued.

The hearing for 25-year-old Frank Rodriguez was continued Wednesday to September 21st.

Rodriguez is facing one count each of aggravated battery and felony child abuse.

He was arrested late last month following an investigation by the Hiawatha Police Department and Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

The investigation was launched after two-year-old girl was brought to the Hiawatha Community Hospital on August 26 with a severe head injury.  The child was later flown to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

Rodriguez remains in the Brown County Jail, held on a $500,000 bond.