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Montville, NJ Domestic Violence Incident Precedes Murder Charges

The case of a man who allegedly murdered his girlfriend’s young child during a domestic violence incident at a Montville NJ motel could soon be headed to trial in Morris County, New Jersey.

The victim, a three-year-old toddler, was found unresponsive at the Knights Inn motel in Montville on April 10, 2015. Montville police officers were dispatched to the suspect’s motel room after receiving a 911 call about a child choking on food. When law enforcement got to the scene, it soon became clear that the toddler was not a choking victim; rather, he had likely been assaulted in a domestic violence incident. Montville NJ cops noticed that the victim had sustained severe bruises all over his body.

Additionally, police officers at the scene noticed that the victim’s mother had sustained bruises across her face and also had a black eye. Investigators with the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office later determined that the suspect had likely assaulted the woman.

The young victim was transported to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson New Jersey, where doctors tried valiantly to save him. Tragically, the small child was pronounced dead only a few days after being hospitalized.

Meanwhile, the suspect, a 29-year-old male who was reportedly living with his girlfriend and her son at the time of the homicide, was arrested and charged with multiple crimes, including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Not long after the child died, the aggravated assault charges were upgraded to murder charges.

Morris County medical examiners later determined that the young victim’s death was attributable to blunt force trauma to his head.

Now it appears that the suspect in the homicide case could be headed to trial after failing to accept a plea deal offered by Morris County NJ prosecutors. The suspect recently made an appearance in Morris County Superior Court, located in Morristown, for a pretrial hearing.

During the pretrial hearing, the superior court judge listened to arguments from both the prosecution and the defense about whether a videotaped interview with the suspect should be admissible as evidence at trial. The judge will likely issue a ruling on the admissibility of the video evidence in the weeks ahead.

For additional information about this case, read the DailyRecord.com article, “Battered Toddler Found in Montville after 911 Call.”

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