A 1-year-old child died Saturday of injuries he suffered days earlier that led to the arrest of a 32-year-old Gering man.
According to a social media post by a family member, the child, Gideon Lockwood, died at a Colorado hospital, where he had been transported after initially being treated at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff.
Police arrested a Gering man, Tyler Green, Wednesday, accusing him in court documents of injuring the child. Green was arraigned in Scotts Bluff County Court later Wednesday on charges of committing child abuse with intent resulting in injury to a child. He remains jailed on $1 million bail.
Details of the allegations were included in an arrest affidavit. The affidavit outlines that Gering police and medical personnel were called to a Gering home where a 1-year-old child had been reported to be vomiting blood. A caller told dispatchers that the boy had a lot of blood coming out of his mouth and had gone limp. The caller described the boy as unresponsive but breathing.
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At the scene, a Scotts Bluff County sheriff’s deputy spoke to the caller, who was identified as Green. Green told the deputy that the child had diarrhea and “had made a mess on the floor and the walls.” He said he had given the child a bath to clean him, and he had begun vomiting blood. The man told the deputy he had called for the child’s mother, who was downstairs, to bring him his phone to call 911.
However, according to the arrest affidavit, the deputy found Green’s story to be inconsistent as he didn’t observe any mess from the child having suffered from diarrhea or water in the bathtub. He did observe a drop of blood in the bathroom. The deputy also told an investigating officer that the child had a lot of blood around his mouth and a bruise on the left side of his head.
Medical personnel treating the child at Regional West Medical Center’s Emergency Room told police that he suffered bruising and lacerations to his genital area. He also had a lowered body temperature of 82 degrees. The child had to be given a blood transfusion, and after a CT scan, he was transported to Children’s Hospital in Colorado for additional treatment.
Police interviewed a Regional West doctor who told police that the boy had suffered a crushing injury to his genital area and lacerations. He suffered several contusions and hematomas to his face, lower back and chest. The doctor said he also had observed bruising on the child’s buttocks and legs. The boy suffered internal injuries with bruising to the lungs, as well as blood in his lungs. A CT scan showed that the child had suffered a hypoxic brain injury, which would be caused by the the child’s brain not getting enough oxygen, police said in the arrest affidavit.
According to the arrest affidavit, the doctor told police “the mechanism of injury appeared intentional” and “that the amount of bruising ... would be on par to having the child put in a clothes dryer and turned on.”
Police arrested Green at his home and interviewed him at the Gering Police Department. They also interviewed the child’s mother, who told police that Green and she had been drinking earlier in the evening and that he had an altercation with his former wife. The woman told police she had gone to bed and was awakened to Green screaming. She said she observed him holding the child, wrapped in a towel. She said she and Green then called 911.
Green also allegedly told police that he had been the one caring for the child and that the child’s mother had been downstairs when the injuries would have occurred.
The Star-Herald has reached out to Scotts Bluff County Attorney Dave Eubanks to see whether the County Attorney’s Office will amend its charges after the death of the boy but hasn’t heard back.
Green is scheduled to appear in court March 28 for a preliminary hearing.
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