MASON CITY – A Mason City man guilty of child endangerment will spend up to 10 years in prison.
On June 22, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Mason City police officers and medics responded to the 1700 block of South Coolidge Avenue on a report of a 5-month-old female infant that was unresponsive and had difficulty breathing.
A joint investigation by the Mason City Police Department, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Iowa Department of Human Services into the incident resulted in the arrest of 28-year-old Jeremy Walter Rose of Mason City. Rose was arrested in the 2500 block of South Jefferson Avenue evening and transported to the Cerro Gordo County Jail.
Rose was charged with felony C Child Endangerment and simple misdemeanor Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Rose was found guilty by a jury in April of child endangerment causing serious injury. He faces up to 10 years in prison for his crime.
At sentencing this week, Rose was handed a 10-year prison sentence on the child endangerment charge and a 2-year prison sentence for possession of meth to be served concurrently.
