TAYSHAUN MICHAEL GORECKI - 11 Months (2010) Cedar City (NE of St George) UT

An infant who had been in a vegetative state since December died last month, and police say homicide charges will be filed against the father.
Police have not identified the boy, but an obituary published on a mortuary website listed his name as Tayshaun Michael Gorecki. He died Sept. 29 at age 11 months, according to the obituary.
His father, Andy Roy Gorecki, 26, already had been charged with felony child abuse, but Cedar City police Sgt. JR Robinson on Wednesday said the charges will be amended to homicide. State court records did not show a change as of Wednesday afternoon.
“He was interviewed at the time and offered an explanation” for the boy’s injuries, Robinson said. “If I’m correct in recalling, it was pretty weak and the injuries did not match the explanation.”
Tayshaun was 8 weeks old on Dec. 18, when his grandmother found him not breathing and took him to Valley View Medical Center. Doctors said the boy suffered an internal head injury consistent with shaken baby syndrome.
Robinson on Wednesday said the baby had been on life support since the injuries. Robinson did not know if that support was discontinued.
Gorecki has been in the Iron County jail since the injuries were discovered. He has pleaded not guilty to the abuse charge, which carries a penalty of one to 15 years in prison. A child-abuse homicide charge likely will carry the possibility of life in prison.
Gorecki in 2005 was accused of participating in a rape at a Cedar City home. He pleaded guilty the following year to a felony count of forcible sexual abuse and remains on the state’s sex offender registry.

Higher charge given to father in infant's death
April 28. 2011 6:49AM

CEDAR CITY - The father of an infant who died September 2010 from serious head injuries could face 15 years to life in prison for a first-degree felony child abuse homicide charge.
Police originally charged Andy Roy Gorecki, 26, of Cedar City, with aggravated assault in December 2009 when his infant son, then nearly 3 months old, was revived in the hospital and put on life support.
The infant was taken off life support, Sept. 29, 2010, said Cedar City Police Det. Mike Bleak on the stand in 5th District Court Wednesday, and a subsequent autopsy report showed cause of death to be "complications from a head injury" and the manner of death was listed as homicide.
Gorecki had already been through one preliminary hearing for the original charge last year, and Bleak, along with the infant's grandmother Pearlene Aguilera took the stand once again.
Aguilera reiterated the events of that day in December 2009, taking the baby to the hospital after Gorecki found him foaming at the nose, not breathing and pale.
"I was screaming, 'Lord bring him back, take me but bring him back,'" Aguilera cried on the stand. "I thought he was dead ... he was just limp."
The infant, who was one of twins, was transported to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City and then to a long-term care facility until he was taken off life support.
Bleak said Gorecki gave four differing stories during interviews: not knowing what could have caused the injury, the infant being hit by a toy thrown by another child, getting bumped in his bassinet and being dropped accidentally by Gorecki.
The father had been watching five children for a few hours that day while his wife, Jessica Gorecki, was at a court hearing and his mother-in-law was helping a friend, Aguilera said.
Gorecki's attorney Jack Burns argued the date of the incident for which Gorecki is charged, and the date of the death by pulling the baby off life support, did not match.
Burns further said a lesser charge of aggravated assault would be more appropriate in the case.
Iron County Attorney Scott Garrett said the autopsy report showed the cause of the injury and death to be homicide, therefore, would stay with the current charge.
Judge John Walton said he found sufficient evidence with the autopsy report and scheduled an arraignment for May 17 at 1:30 p.m. Gorecki remains in the Iron County Jail.
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20110428/NEWS01/104280332

The father of an infant who died in September 2010, pleaded not
guilty Tuesday to a first-degree felony child abuse homicide charge in 5th District Court.



Andy Roy Gorecki, 27, of Cedar City, was originally charged with aggravated
assault after his nearly 3-month-old son was taken to the hospital
foaming at the nose, not breathing and pale.The
infant was transported to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt
Lake City before moving to a long-term care facility. The infant was
taken off life support Sept. 29, 2010, and subsequent autopsy reports
showed the cause of death to be complications from a head injury. The
cause of death was then listed as homicide, and the charge against
Gorecki was then raised to a first-degree felony.Gorecki's
attorney Jack Burns said because of the nature of the case, which will
include expert testimony witnesses, the trial could take up to three
days.The date for the trial has not yet been set. If convicted, Gorecki could face 15 years to life in prison.

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