Dad pleads not guilty in baby’s car death Father gets 2 years for baby’s skull injury

An Ohio man whose 6-month-old daughter died after she was found unresponsive in a hot car last month has pleaded not guilty to a charge of child endangering.

Christopher Stewart entered his plea Thursday in county court. The 22-yearold Lodi man was indicted this week.

Medina police say the baby was found unresponsive July 14 in a car in Ray Mellert Park. They say the baby was transported to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

A police release says the preliminary cause of death is heat-related. A police report says the child was left in the car for about two hours.

Medina is about 30 miles south of Cleveland.

A Toledo man who fractured the skull of his 12-weekold child was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison.

Deonte Lee, 22, pleaded no content to endangering children, a second-degree felony punishable by up to eight years in prison, before Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Gary Cook who found him guilty and imposed the minimum term.

Lee was watching the infant at his mother’s Blackstone Drive home in April when the child was injured. It was the second time such an injury had occurred, prosecutors said, and under the terms of a safety plan developed with Lucas County Children Services, the child’s mother, Sarbrina Robertson, was to maintain supervision of the baby.

Robertson, 23, of Ravine Park Village pleaded no contest Aug. 1 to a third-degree felony charge of endangering children for violating her care of duty by allowing her child to be with Lee. She is to be sentenced Aug. 29.

The attorney for a Lima man charged with murder in the stabbing death last month of his father entered pleas of not guilty on his client’s behalf during a brief arraignment hearing Wednesday.

Timothy Youngblood, 31, of Lima, was indicted by the August term of an Allen County grand jury on two counts of murder, both unclassified felonies, and one count of felonious assault, a felony of the second degree. If convicted on either of the murder counts (he cannot be found guilty of both), Young faces a prison term of 15 years to life.

Youngblood, 112 E. Market St., Lima, is charged in the July 9 death of his father, 65-year-old Van Youngblood, at the elder man’s residence at 311 E. 14th St.

Initial reports from the Allen County Sheriff ’s Office said the county dispatch center received a 911 emergency call at approximately 11:06 a.m. on July 9 about someone who had been severely injured. It was later learned the call was made by Wilma Youngblood, the wife of the victim.

Deputies, along with personnel from the Perry Township EMS, responded to the East 14th Street home. A male — subsequently identified as the elder Youngblood — was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said the man had been stabbed “multiple times by a sword-like weapon” that was taken from a military-style shadowbox display in the family home.