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Last updated on Monday, August 10, 2015
(MUNCIE) - A 22-year-old Indianapolis man has been arrested on six preliminary felony charges in the death of his 5-month-old son in Muncie in February.
Cory Wallace was arrested Friday night at 8:30 after giving police "multiple versions" of what happened when his son Jensen died. The baby was found dead in the family's burning home on Feb. 10. A forensics pathologist determined Jensen had died before the fire of "blunt force trauma to the head."
Wallace has been preliminarily charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death, aggravated battery, battery on a child under age 14, arson, attempted abuse of a corpse and obstruction of justice - all felonies. He was being held in the Delaware County jail on $150,000 bond.
This isn't the first time Wallace has been in trouble with the law. He was charged in Marion County in March 2013 with neglect of a dependent, according to court documents. That case also stemmed from a child Wallace fathered, and was under the age of 1 at the time. He pleaded guilty in January 2015.
During the plea hearing, prosecutors said - and Wallace admitted - he failed to get medical attention for the child even though he had suffered several injuries, including "multiple rib fractures."
In this case, the forensic pathologist found Wallace's son, Jensen, had several injuries, including at least two rib fractures (one older that had healed as well as a fresher injury that had not healed), as well as abrasions and small cuts on his back, chest, neck and scalp. The pathologist found that "many of these abrasions and cuts were consistent with having been made by human fingernails."
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