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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Durig death ruled a homicide
TROY — The death of Caleb Durig, the eight-month-old boy who died Monday, was ruled a homicide after an autopsy Tuesday, July 27.
The Miami County Coroner’s Office found that the boy died from multiple blunt force trauma, said Troy police Capt. Chris Anderson.
Anderson said authorities don’t know how long the boy had been dead when his mother called 911.
The boy’s parents, Jason, 29, and Tara, 27, of 1251 Hilltop Drive, have both been arrested and booked into the Miami County Jail. Both are charged with child endangering.
» Listen to Tara Durig’s 911 call
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Dead baby’s father served prison time for scalding another child
TROY - Jason E. Durig, the Troy man charged with child endangering in connection with the death of his 8-month-old son, served 16 months in prison for scalding another baby in a bath.
“You should never have custody of another child in your entire life,” Miami County Common Pleas Judge Robert Lindeman told Durig during his June 2007 sentencing.
Durig, 29, and his wife, Tara, 27, of 1251 Hilltop Drive, were both arrested and charged after their son Caleb was found dead Monday, July 26. A Miami County Municipal Judge set $50,000 bonds for both of them Tuesday morning.
Jason Durig was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to child endangering in 2007. According to police, he poured hot water on a one-month-old’s back, burning his back and buttocks. The child was treated for second-degree burns at Children’s Medical Center.
Durig was also convicted of tampering with evidence and theft in unrelated cases. Given 40 days jail credit, he entered prison in July 2007 and was released in November 2008, said JoEllen Smith, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
Lindeman noted that the burns occurred “at least one to two days” before doctors examined the boy.
Durig told Lindeman that the remarks in the medical report were “not true” and that he called the child’s pediatrician for guidance, who told him to take the child to Children’s. Instead, the Durigs took the boy to Upper Valley Medical Center near Troy because they didn’t have gas money to get to Dayton, Durig told Lindeman.
“I didn’t know what to do,” Durig told Lindeman. “What I am guilty of, basically, is being inexperienced.”
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