WAUPACA, WI (WTAQ) – A man has been convicted in connection with the death of a toddler.
35-year-old John Brush pled no contest Tuesday to a charge of first-degree recklessly endangering safety. 7 other charges, including reckless homicide, were dismissed.
Online court records indicate Brush will be sentenced July 20.
Prosecutors are expected to cap their recommendation to a decade in prison. The judge in this case doesn’t have to go along with that sentence, given that the maximum would be 12 years and six months.
Police were called to New London Family Medical Center back on June 14 after the child was rushed there, according to the criminal complaint. The 3-year-old boy was left in the care of Brush, who’s the mom’s boyfriend.
Brush told the mom that her son fell down the stairs. The child died nine days later.
Autopsy results show the child, however, died from blunt force trauma not consistent with such a fall.
“None of Brush’s multiple explanations of the cause of injuries to the child are consistent with expert medical opinions, and the child could not have received life threatening injuries in the manner described by the only person present with him when the injuries occurred,” the complaint states.
