A forty five-year-old Tooele County father has been charged with aggravated homicide in reference to the demise of his roughly 1-year-old son.
On Saturday, Aaron Visser was initially arrested on suspicion of aggravated little one abuse, in response to courtroom paperwork. Nonetheless, his toddler little one died from inner accidents Monday, courtroom paperwork state. The aggravated homicide cost was filed in third District Court docket two days later.
In keeping with a possible trigger assertion, emergency personnel had been dispatched to an tackle in Grantsville at 5:28 p.m. Friday to take care of an toddler who was reportedly unconscious and never respiratory. Visser had allegedly began CPR, and first responders started care upon arrival.
The kid was first transported to Mountain West Medical Heart after which taken by Life Flight to Intermountain Main Kids’s Hospital, in response to courtroom paperwork.
Whereas care was being delivered, an officer photographed a number of accidents to the toddler’s face, eyes, ft and hand, in response to the possible trigger assertion. A number of inner accidents had been later found throughout an evaluation on the hospital.
The sufferer’s accidents had been “each new and preexisting,” courtroom paperwork state.
An officer with the Grantsville Police Division attended forensic interviews with three of the toddler’s siblings, who allegedly stated that Visser was abusive and “very upset” by being woken up by the toddler and his twin brother on the day of the incident, in addition to by a name he’d acquired from the kid’s mom asking for assist at work, the paperwork state.
The siblings stated the toddler was “consistently getting injured whereas inside the main bedroom with the daddy,” in response to the paperwork. One of many siblings additionally remembered “listening to a loud thud adopted by the sufferer crying after which listening to their father’s voice,” in response to the possible trigger assertion.
Officers interviewed Visser on the Grantsville Police Division, the place he denied understanding what prompted his son’s accidents after which gave myriad explanations, “none of which appeared constant,” in response to the possible trigger assertion.
Visser was booked into the Tooele County Detention Heart on Saturday night.