ADRIAN ANTHONY TRUJILLO - 5 months - Golden CO

GOLDEN, Colo. — A five-month-old baby found dead early Thursday in a Denver suburb
apparently died while his father left him to drink at a local bar.
Jefferson County authorities have charged 23-year-old Joseph Trujillo of Golden
with first-degree murder in the death of his baby boy, who was not
named.
The baby's grandmother, who lived
with Joseph Trujillo and the baby, called 911 after being woken up just
after midnight by the sound of Joseph Trujillio crying.
The grandmother says she found Joseph Trujillo holding the dead baby.
Police say that after interviewing Trujillo and the grandmother that they
believe Trujillo left the baby alone in the apartment for six or seven
hours while he went to a bar. He is being held without bond.

A Jefferson County man charged with
child abuse resulting in death repeatedly lied to investigators about
how long he left his 5-month-old child alone and where he had gone
before returning home to find the child dead, according to court
documents.
The man, 23-year-old Joseph Trujillo, initially told investigators
from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office that he had left the child
at his apartment for 20 minutes while he made a quick trip to a
7-Eleven and a Taco Bell, according to an arrest affidavit.
But after extensive interviews with friends and Trujillo's mother,
who shared the apartment with Trujillo and his son, Adrian Anthony
Trujillo, investigators said Trujillo had left the baby alone for hours.
Investigators determined that at 4:41 p.m. on Jan. 20, Trujillo
texted a friend from the Rock Rest Bar saying he was there drinking.
Trujillo returned home at 11:30 p.m.
During most of the time he was gone, according to Trujillo's
friends, Trujillo was drinking, first at the bar, then at an apartment,
before stopping at a Taco Bell and returning home at 11:30 p.m.
Trujillo said that when he left to go drinking, he placed Adrian in
his bed, placed pillows on either side of his head to keep him from
moving and propped a baby bottle filled with 6 to 8 ounces of formula
on his chest.
When he returned home, Trujillo said, he found the child purple and
blue with his hands up by his head. He was cold and wouldn't move.
When paramedics arrived at 12:20 a.m. on Jan. 21, they found
Trujillo crying and mumbling incoherently. Adrian was dead. Officials
have not yet released a cause of death.
Officials said the child's mother is in the Army but is not married to Trujillo.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Army at Fort Riley, Kan., said Trujillo was "administratively separated" from the Army last May.
John Taylor, a prosecutor in Junction City, Kan., said he prosecuted
Trujillo for misdemeanor driving under the influence last March.
Trujillo was sentenced to 12 months in jail. The sentence was
suspended, and he was placed on probation.

The father of a 5-month-old boy who was found dead after the father went out to play "beer pong" has pleaded guilty in the child's death.Joseph Trujillo, 23, entered his plea Tuesday in Jefferson County Court. He pleaded guilty to felony negligent child abuse causing death, according to Pam Russell, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office.On Jan. 20, 2010, Trujillo put his 5-month-old son on a bed, wedged by pillows, with a bottle of formula on his chest, and then went out to drink shots at a bar and attend a house party, according to court records.
The 23-year-old father told investigators he finally returned home about midnight on Jan. 20 to find the baby's lifeless body on it back on the bed where he left him, according to an investigator's statement supporting Trujillo's arrest.
While Jefferson County sheriff's investigators initially recommended a first-degree murder charge against Trujillo, prosecutors formally charged him with child abuse resulting in death, a Class III felony.Investigators said Trujillo was initially adamant that he had only left home for "20 minutes" to "get a quick drink" with a woman friend. But the woman told investigators that Trujillo, whom she had met on Facebook, was out for at least 7 hours, the arrest affidavit stated.Trujillo's mother, Gay Lujan, who lives with him at the West 10th Avenue apartment, told investigators she returned from work about 10:15 p.m. and found music blaring in her son's room and the baby's crib empty."She believed Joseph was at the bar because he has a drinking problem," the grandmother told investigators, according to the affidavit. "She was concerned he took (the baby) with him to the bar.""She sent him a few text messages stating, 'Get the baby home' and 'Where are you?'" the arrest report stated. But her son did not respond.The grandmother said she was awakened about 12:30 a.m. by the sound of Joseph crying on the phone to someone."She got up and saw Adrian lying on the couch. She touched him and felt he was stiff and cold," the affidavit stated. The woman called 911.An arriving paramedic found the baby cold and pale with his arms raised up around his head. The paramedic noticed a one inch-wide discoloration on the dead infant's temple, the arrest affidavit said.The young father was kneeling on the kitchen floor, crying and "mumbling incoherently," the arrest affidavit stated.The woman friend told investigators how she and Trujillo left the bar to go to an apartment across the street and "played beer pong" for about an hour, the arrest affidavit stated. Beer pong is a drinking game where players toss a ping-pong ball into a beer glass to force an opponent to chug.The couple then drove to Taco Bell for a meal before driving home and sitting in the car parked outside Trujillo's apartment until about 11:30 p.m., when the woman told investigators she went home.After entering the apartment alone, Trujillo said he found his son was still on the bed on his back, but he "he was purple and blue with his hands up by his head," the affidavit stated. "He was cold and wouldn't move."Trujillo will be sentenced on Oct. 13 at 8 a.m.

A 24-year-old man who left his 5-month-old son home alone, on a bed surrounded by pillows -- while he went to a bar and played beer pong -- was sentenced Wednesday.Joseph Trujillo, of Golden, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.His son, Adrian, died of "soft suffocation," according to Jefferson County prosecutors.