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The baby, Liam Lee Spencer, died Oct. 6 after he was found unresponsive in a room at the Drake Motel, 3200 E. National Road in Springfield Twp.
A Clark County grand jury indicted the baby’s mother, Shania Delawder, 19, been indicted Monday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. She will be arraigned on that charge later this week.
Brian Spencer faces up to 11 years in prison, plus two years for a parole violation. He will be sentenced on Feb. 14 in Clark County Common Pleas Court.
Prosecutors will ask for the maximum sentence, Wilson said.
He and Delawder were arrested by deputies on child endangering charges the same day Liam died.
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Those initial charges against both parents were dropped that same month. More evidence was needed to fully present the cases to the grand jury, according to a statement from Wilson released at the time.
The baby died of blunt force trauma, Wilson said.
Brian Spencer still hasn’t provided a full statement to investigators about what happened, Wilson said, but they know Liam was injured between midnight and 1 a.m. and that medical help wasn’t sought for several hours.
“We know that there was basically a six-hour gap then where no medical intervention was sought, the authorities weren’t notified, they didn’t call 9-1-1, even though they knew the baby was injured,” Wilson said. “By the time the sheriff’s deputies and medics got there, the baby was dead.”
Delawder came to the sheriff’s office for another interview with detectives earlier this month, according to Clark County Municipal court records. She was then arrested again.
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“Shania admitted in the interview that she knew her 7-week-old son named Liam Lee Spencer had been severely injured and she did not try to render aide, which resulted in the child’s death, because she was afraid Children’s Services would take him away from her,” the court records say.
Wilson said he was glad Brian Spencer pleaded guilty.
“But given what happened in this case, nothing we do in court will ever equal full justice for this baby,” he said.
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