On the day that a judge acquitted an Illinois father of murdering his infant son, prosecutors filed to dismiss related charges against the mother.
Logan Hutchings, 22, was found not guilty in a Perry County courtroom. His co-defendant, Sophia Kelly, 22, was scheduled for a jury trial to start May 1.
Prosecutors and the parents’ respective attorneys did not immediately respond to Law&Crime for comment.
As Law&Crime previously reported, young Ocean Wayne Hutchings died on June 14, 2022, following skull and rib fractures. (Authorities said he was 3-months-old while his obituary said 4 months.)
On June 15, 2022, Kelly posted “My sweet boy We will get justice for you. ” on Facebook.
“My world has been turned around 5 times this week and I’ll never have trust in anyone again,” Logan Hutchings wrote on June 16, 2022.
But cops arrested her and Hutchings in April 2023.
“On June 12, 2022, ISP DCI was requested by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and the Pinckneyville Police Department to investigate serious injuries sustained to a 3-month-old male infant,” officers said. “The infant had been admitted to a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri and was discovered to have a skull fracture, along with multiple rib fractures. Prior to the arrival at the hospital, the infant had been in the care of Hutchings and Kelly, the infant’s parents, in Pinckneyville. On June 14, 2022, the infant was pronounced deceased at the hospital as a result of these injuries.”
Matt Naham contributed to this report.
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