Matthew Wylie Likes To Pierce Tongues

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[QUOTE]A Martell man was sentenced Wednesday to [B]three to six years [/B]in prison for cutting a 3-month-old boy's tongue.

Last month, a jury found Matthew Wylie, 22, guilty of second-degree assault and felony child abuse for the June 24 incident.

Wylie said he put his right index finger on Zackary Daniel's tongue to try to stop his crying. In court, he said he'd seen parents do that with babies and thought Zackary would react by sucking on his finger.

But the surgeon who worked on the boy said he didn't think a fingernail could have caused the cut.

It was the state's theory Wylie used a sharp object to cut the boy's tongue.

[B]Zackary, who will turn 1 in March, has recovered, and his mother has since married Wylie. The couple are expecting a baby in April.

Zackary has been placed with his maternal grandmother.[/B]
During Wylie's sentencing hearing, his attorney, Shawn Elliott, said his client has had no contact with the boy since the incident.

Wylie told Lancaster County District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront he didn't mean to hurt Zackary and he was “willing to do anything to prove it.”

Cheuvront said this was an unusual case and he was curious as to what caused the boy's injury.

“Mr. Wylie's explanation just doesn't jibe,” he said. “This offense is so serious because an infant such as this is really defenseless.

“It's the obligation of adults in society to protect them.”

[B]Wylie will be eligible for parole in 18 months.[/B][/QUOTE]

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Now that's scary…they have added another baby in the mix

[December 18 2012 --- BELOW IS THE LATEST NEWS ON MATTHEW WYLIE SINCE HIS PRIOR GROSSLY-ABUSIVE INCIDENT OF CUTTING OUT A 3-MONTH-OLD BABY'S TONGUE:
Yes the system in Nebraska has failed, all right---INTOLERABLY. He needs to be put down. Others who were negligent in their paid jobs of protecting this poor little baby should pay a heavy price as well]

A 25-year-old Martell man allegedly beat a 1-year-old boy Wednesday night, breaking his skull and causing his brain to bleed, said Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner.

Deputies arrested Matthew Wylie, 17725 S.W. 25th St., on suspicion of felony child abuse about
10:30 a.m. Thursday at the office of his parole officer. He remains in jail.

Wylie was baby-sitting while the baby’s mother, Kayla Jurgensen, worked as a waitress in Lincoln Wednesday night and called totell her the boy had been hurt, Wagner said.

The sheriff said Jurgensen, 22, left work and went home, picked up Wylie and the baby,
Baiden, and drove to Crete, where she dropped Wylie off at his mother’s home, then took her son to the Crete Area Medical Center.

He was flown by helicopter to Bryan West, where doctors treated him for a skull fracture, two separate brain bleeds, swelling and a broken left arm that was already healing.

Jurgensen said Wylie told her Baiden fell off the bathroom counter and hit his head on the floor.

“He would never intentionally hurt Baiden, ever,” she said in a telephone interview Friday afternoon. “He wants to be a father to Baiden.”

Late Friday afternoon, doctors were considering taking him off a ventilator because he started breathing on his own, Wagner said.

“It looks like he’s improving,” the sheriff said. “Things are looking promising in that regard, but only time will tell.”

Deputies released Jurgensen after citing her for felony child abuse, because she knew Wylie was a convicted child abuser and was not allowed to be around children younger than 12, Wagner said.

According to court documents, Jurgensen tried to protect Wylie by lying about how Baiden
was injured. When pressed, she told investigators that in the past Wylie had yanked Baiden up by his arm and threw him onto the bed and floor, the documents say. She also said she wasn’t “completely buying” Wylie’s story.

Doctors told deputies Baiden’s injuries don’t jibe with Wylie’s story and that scans show injuries in different stages of healing, which suggests several instances of abuse.

The boy is now in custody of Child Protective Services, Wagner said.

“The system basically failed,” he said. “If it hadn’t, this 1-year-old wouldn’t have been living in the house of a convicted child abuser.”

Wylie was in the last two weeks of parole on a felony child abuse conviction and second-degree assault. In 2009, he nearly severed a 3-month-old boy’s tongue.

Wylie served one year and seven months in prison and was paroled in September 2011. His parole was set to end Dec. 26.

The state Board of Parole approved his release 3-2 after his Sunday school teacher vouched for him. She said she had known Wylie since he was a boy and saw “tremendous growth” since he was allowed to leave prison to attend Sunday school.

“He’s upset about what happened and remorseful,” the woman told the Parole Board, “but it’s something that happened and won’t happen again.”

Jurgensen said what happened Wednesday night was an accident.

“People don’t give other people second chances. They just expect them to always be the way they are,” she said. “I think people can change. Maybe that’s naïve of me.”

Wylie was like a father to Baiden, she said. He taught him new things, like how to crawl, walk and catch a ball.

“He’s always playing with Baiden, making him laugh and giggle.”

Jurgensen said Wylie’s parole officer knew the three of them were living together, and they met weekly for three months early this year so the officer could make sure Baiden was OK.

But the Sheriff’s Office received a report of possible abuse in August, Wagner said. Deputies
who went to investigate found no injuries, but Wylie’s parole officer added a condition ordering him to stay away from children younger than 12.

“I moved out, but I had nowhere else to go,” Jurgensen said Friday. “I couldn’t afford it. Matt was willing to put his parole on the line to help me and Baiden out. Otherwise we’d be at the mission.”

Also Friday, state Department of Correctional Services spokeswoman Dawn-Renee Smith said Wylie’s file does not indicate that his parole officer met with the couple. She said the officer approved Wylie to live in a house without children.

Smith said the parole officer knew Jurgensen moved out, but didn’t know she moved back in.

Jurgensen said she and Wylie met with workers from the state Department of Health and Human Services every two weeks starting last month. They were ready to close Baiden’s case in January because they saw no need to keep tabs on him, she said.

HHS spokesman Russ Reno said the department doesn’t remove children from homes after workers find they’re living with someone they’re not supposed to. Instead, he said, they work with parents and reach agreements on how to keep a child safe.

He declined to comment on Baiden Jurgensen’s case.

“I’m not sure if it’s something we didn’t do or something parole didn’t do, or if the whole system broke down,” Wagner said Friday morning. “But something somewhere needs to be fixed.”

Later Friday, Wagner said he reviewed the investigation his deputies conducted in August and is satisfied with their work.

In the 2009 case, Wylie was sentenced to three to six years in prison after Lancaster County District Court jurors found him guilty of cutting an infant’s tongue nearly in two lengthwise. Wylie testified that he put his right index finger on the baby’s tongue to try to stop his crying but a surgeon said he didn’t think a fingernail could have caused the cut. The state maintained Wylie used a sharp object.

That child recovered and was placed with a grandmother. His mother later married Wylie and the two had a daughter in 2010.

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