MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — David Heiden was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the shaking death of a 2-year-old boy. He is first eligible to mask for parole after serving 25 years.
Heiden, 29, previously pleaded guilty to physical abuse of a child-repeated acts causing death.
Police were called to a Two Rivers apartment in April, where Gilbert Grant II was not breathing. The child had multiple injuries, according to a police probable cause document.
Heiden said he spanked the victim, “then picked victim up by his sides with his hands around the victim’s torso and shook the victim with force while yelling at him to go to sleep,” the document states.
Also charged in the case are Rena Santiago — the child’s mother — and Bianca Bush. They both face physical abuse of a child charges for alleged abuse in the months leading up to the boy’s death.
Santiago returns to court Thursday for a plea hearing. Bush returns to court March 4 for a scheduling conference; no trial date has been set.
