A father from Indianapolis is in custody facing charges related to a tragic incident of child abuse that resulted in death. A tragic incident occurred involving a victim named Jaxson Lee Thompson, who was only four months old when he lost his life.
The child was admitted to Riley Children’s Hospital in critical condition on Friday. However, after being found with no brain activity, life support was discontinued, and he passed away two days later.
An incident of alleged abuse occurred in an apartment on S. Pennsylvania, where the suspect contacted emergency services last week to report that his child had ceased breathing.
“It’s unbearable. I would not want any parent to go through what I’ve been through, to see my baby the way he was,” said the child’s mother, Savannah Thompson.
Savannah reports that she entrusted her 4-month-old son Jaxson to his father’s care while she went to work on Friday.
Legal documents assert Brandon Herring first refuted any wrongdoing towards the child, later acknowledged that he had dropped the boy, and ultimately confessed to shaking the baby forcefully.
“It’s really hard because I have to tell myself it’s not my fault. I was at work. I was trying to provide for him,” said Thompson.
Medical professionals at Riley have verified that the child suffered from significant brain hemorrhaging indicative of having been shaken.
The affidavit reveals that Herring admitted to the police that he lost his temper and grew increasingly frustrated due to the baby’s incessant crying.
On Thursday, Herring received a sentence of 18 years in the Indiana Department of Correction, along with two years of home detention and 15 years suspended, with three of those years on probation. Moreover, he has accumulated 1168 days of actual credit along with 309 days of good time credit, totaling just over four years of jail credit.