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Monday, March 29, 2010
Second child endangering conviction returns man to prison
DAYTON — A Huber Heights man who served a prison term for shaking and injuring his infant son was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week on a new child endangering conviction.
Jeremiah Gaddis, 25, was convicted of the new charge, which involves a different child, on Feb. 22 after a trial. Gaddis was acquitted of a second child endangering charge. He appeared before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge A.J. Wagner on Thursday, March 25 for sentencing.
Wagner sentenced Gaddis to the maximum prison sentence for a fourth-degree felony.
Huber Heights police arrested Gaddis at his home, 8311 Mt. Carmel St., on May 27, the same day he was indicted on both counts.
Gaddis was paroled Oct. 15, 2008 according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
That conviction, in Butler County Common Pleas Court, was for attempted child endangering. Gaddis, who then lived in Fairfield, was accused of shaking and injuring his infant son while at the child’s mother’s Middletown home.
Ethan Gaddis was 5 months old in October 2006 when an ambulance brought him to Middletown Regional Hospital’s emergency room. The boy was suffering from a head injury.
Gaddis told police he was watching the boy at the mother’s residence when the boy fell off the couch. The mother was not home at the time, police said.
After the baby was transported to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, investigators learned that the boy’s injuries and Gaddis’ story didn’t match up. Doctors said the baby was suffering from bleeding on the brain, and that the injury could not have been caused by a fall from the couch, police said.
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