OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) – A man charged with causing the death of a toddler in the Town of Menasha last year pled no contest on Monday.
According to online court records, Ryan Jorgenson entered that plea to a charge of first-degree reckless homicide and will be sentenced March 13.
Authorities say Jorgenson admitted pushing a 3-year-old girl down the stairs of a home last May, causing her death. Jorgenson was the fiancée of the child’s mother.
The criminal complaint says Jorgenson told another jail inmate he, “did a very bad thing,” and “hurt that little girl.”