A 15-year-old Missouri boy was put on probation after pleading guilty to negligent homicide in the July shaking death of a Layton infant he was baby-sitting.
Second District Juvenile Court officials said the boy is back in Missouri on an interstate compact agreement after pleading guilty to the charge.Nine-month-old Thomas Bridges Jr. died July 16 at Primary Childrens Medical Center, where he was transferred after being initially taken to the Hill Air Force Base hospital.
The infant suffered from cranial bleeding and swelling along with other injuries associated with being shaken, according to an autopsy.
The investigation was conducted by Layton police because the Bridges family lived in Hillgate Terrace, a mobile home park near Hill Air Force Base.
Thomas Bridges, the father, was a sergeant in the Air Force. He died three days after his son in a car-motorcycle accident near the south gate of Hill. Police said Bridges was not wearing a helmet when his cycle crashed into a car that turned in front of him.
Investigators said the youth was baby-sitting the infant while the parents were swimming in the mobile home park's pool.
The youth told them the infant was crying and fussy and, in frustration, he shook the child. The boy was charged with negligent homicide, a Class A misdemeanor, because there was no real intent to harm the infant, according to juvenile court officials.
Juvenile authorities in Missouri are supervising the boy's probation, which the court set for an indefinite period pending the outcome of further counseling.