Sentenced: Nehemiah Wright, 11 M O Lost His Life On New Years Day To A Penis

[Sugar Cookie]

Jan. 9, 2018

A Toledo man charged with an 11-month-old boy’s murder was indicted by a Lucas County grand jury Tuesday on a more serious charge of aggravated murder.

Eric J. Mathis, 30, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, with no chance for parole, if convicted of aggravated murder for Nehemiah Wright’s Jan. 1 death. The youngster was found unresponsive in a bathtub, but an autopsy later determined he died from blunt-force trauma.

“The autopsy revealed that there was no evidence to substantiate the story of drowning, but there was evidence of blunt-force trauma,” said Jeff Lingo, chief of the criminal division of the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office.

The grand jury also indicted Mathis for felonious assault and endangering children.

Mr. Lingo said Mathis was the only adult in the Nebraska Avenue home when Nehemiah suffered the injuries. The child's mother had gone out and left the baby in the care of Mathis, her boyfriend, he said.

Toledo Police were called on New Year’s Day to the residence, where they found the child unresponsive in the tub. The boy was pronounced dead at ProMedica Toledo Hospital.

Mathis, who remained in the Lucas County jail Tuesday, initially was charged with endangering children but a murder charge was filed after investigators received the autopsy results.

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[Keepalowprofile]

. The child's mother had gone out and left the baby in the care of Mathis, her boyfriend, he said.

I bet he was pissed that she went out catting around on new years Eve and took it out on the child.

 

[Sejanus]

Another bathtub murders a kid.
American Standard,
Crane,
Kohler,
AKDY...

You are murdering monsters!
People don't kill by neglect.
It is tubs slaying by opportunity!

Embrace showers America!

 

[FrayedKnot]

Boyfriend.

Shocker.

 

[SchruteFarms]

Of course he was mad she went out. She should know the damn character of who she is leaving her kids with.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A central-city man who was previously found guilty of killing his girlfriend’s 11-month-old son on New Year’s Day in 2018 was sentenced to a maximum term of life in prison.

Eric Mathis, 32, was sentenced Aug. 7 by Lucas County Common Pleas Court Judge Myron Duhart to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years served.

Mathis previously entered an Alford plea — not admitting guilt — to aggravated murder in the death of Nehemiah Wright, who he agreed to watch on New Year’s Eve. During the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2018, prosecutors say Mathis called 911 to report that the baby was unresponsive and in the bathtub.

First responders indicated neither the child’s skin nor hair was wet to suggest the baby potentially drowned. Rather, he had internal bleeding, a detached liver and diaphragm, and significant injuries to his liver, according to the Lucas County Coroner’s Office, which ruled Nehemiah died from blunt force trauma.

Central-city man sentenced to life in prison for baby's death

A central-city man who was previously found guilty of killing his girlfriend’s 11-month-old son on New Year’s Day in 2018 was sentenced to a maximum term ...

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