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Sentenced: Thaddious Rice Was Not The Father Of 10-month-old Jaxson Wheeler

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A Newburgh man was sentenced to 40 years in prison in the neglect death of his girlfriend’s 10-month-old son.

A Warrick County judge sentenced Thaddious Rice to the maximum sentence for his conviction on a felony neglect of a dependent charge.

The 10-month-old boy, Jaxson Wheeler, died of a severe head injury in April 2017, the Evansville Courier & Press reported.

Rice was the child’s mother’s boyfriend but he was not the baby’s father. Medical evidence presented at the trial indicated that the boy died from abusive head trauma or injuries caused by shaking.

Police said the baby was unconscious, not breathing and had no pulse when Rice brought him to a hospital emergency room with a head injury. The child’s death two days later was ruled a homicide.

The baby had scrapes on an elbow, ear and both sides of his neck as well as bruises on his genitals and buttocks, some suffered before the head injury, court documents showed. Doctors told police the severity of Wheeler’s injuries could not be explained by a fall down the stairs, which was part of Rice’s accounts of what happened.
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Jury reaches verdict in fatal child neglect trial in Warrick County

Thaddious Rice was charged with murder but a jury found him guilty of reckless homicide instead, as well as neglect, in the death of a 10-month-old.
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The autopsy results just released Monday show Jaxson died from cerebral edema and hemorrhage due to blunt head trauma.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Rice was watching the baby while his mother was working, and took the baby to the E.R. on April 10.

He didn't have a pulse and wasn't breathing, but hospital staff were able to revive him and put him on a ventilator.

Deputies say Rice left the hospital when they arrived.

They say the baby's mother told them Rice planned to harm himself.

He was later found at a gas station, and agreed to talk with authorities.

Deputies say he didn't ask about the condition of Jaxson, but instead said he planned to sue the apartment complex in Newburgh where he was hurt.

During the interview, deputies say Rice told them he lost his footing on the staircase while holding Jaxson in a car seat. He says he hit his head, and woke up to find the baby at the bottom of the stairs, still in his seat.

He says the baby wasn't breathing, He says he tried to do CPR, then drove him to the hospital.

Authorities say the stair case was U-shaped, and didn't show damage that would have been caused from a car seat falling down it.

They say Rice then changed his story several times, and told them he sat the car seat on the railing. He says the baby fell off the railing all the way to the ground below. He says the baby's heart must of stopped because he was so scared from the fall.

Deputies say Rice never called 911, and didn't seem to be in a rush when he took Jaxson to the E.R.

They say he submitted to a drug test, which showed he tested positive for THC.

Doctors say some of Jaxson's injuries would not have happened with a fall, and he showed signs of prior abuse.

He died April 12 at the hospital.

The next day, a former babysitter was interviewed. She says she noticed bruises and took pictures of them in case she would need to report them.

She says over the past few months of Jaxson's life, she noticed changes. She says he was more attached to his mother and easily startled.
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Thaddious Rice, 23, is being held without bond. Officials say it's in connection with the death of 10-month-old Jaxson Wheeler.
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An Evansville man accused of rape in March was arrested again just less than two months later in a separate sexual misconduct case.

Thaddious Robert Scott Rice was booked into Vanderburgh County Jail on Wednesday night on two charges of sexual misconduct with a minor.

Court documents filed in the case do not include many details about the incident but allege that Rice, at age 22, had sexual intercourse and other sexual contact with a girl younger than 16 years old.

Court documents also allege that during the same incident, Clint Carlile, then 19, had sex with that girl’s friend, who was also younger than 16 years old. Carlile is wanted on a warrant for one charge of sexual misconduct with a minor.

One girl’s mother reported the incident to police in December and forensic interviews were conducted with both girls.

Rice allegedly contacted one girl’s mother shortly after she contacted police and denied being involved, threatening to make the other girl and her parents “go broke through court costs and all that” and asking her to relay the message to the other family.

This is not the first time Rice was accused in a sexual assault case.

In March, he was charged with rape for allegedly raping a woman while she was heavily intoxicated at a party in late July in Evansville.

The woman had been in bed in a room away from the party and told police she did not remember anything that happened between sitting up against a wall after having several drinks and walking into her home the next afternoon.

A witness said they saw the light off in the room where the woman was lying down and found the door locked. Another person told police they saw Rice leaving the room.

Rice denied having sexual contact with the woman and claimed two other people were in the room with her. However, Indiana State Police reported Rice’s DNA matched body fluids found on the victim’s genitals during a sexual assault exam.

He was arrested March 1 on a charge of rape while the victim is unaware, a Level 3 felony, according to court records. Rice posted a cash bond of $2,445 March 3.

The prosecutor’s office filed a petition to revoke bond in the rape case on Wednesday. That means Rice would remain in jail at least until the hearing on the petition.

Police tried to interview Rice about the sexual misconduct with a minor case March 2, when he was incarcerated on the rape charge, but according to court documents he refused to speak without his attorney present.
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Rape suspect arrested in separate sexual misconduct case

An Evansville man accused of rape in March was arrested again just less than two months later on sexual misconduct with a minor charges.
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SickSadWorld said:
Sad.
This baby is dead because a larger, man-baby ,couldn't control his temper.
As usual, I'm left wondering where Mom was...
Granted, she didn't do this, but I mean, this happens way too much, it seems.
40 years for this.
At 25?
That's pretty much his whole life behind bars.
Mom lost her precious baby, that this man murdered, in a fit of rage, and he too, lost his future because of it.
So sad.
RIP angel.
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I assume she was working, that's the usual reason.
 
SickSadWorld said:
@Fives My Charm
Article below top one says Rice was the babysitter, while Mom was working.
I see the working Mom, bf watching kid, kid "accidentally" dies while under their care scenario too often here...
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Thanks @SickSadWorld .. I guess the babysitter had the day off.. because I caught this part..
The next day, a former babysitter was interviewed. She says she noticed bruises and took pictures of them in case she would need to report them.

She says over the past few months of Jaxson's life, she noticed changes. She says he was more attached to his mother and easily startled.
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