A Placer County man was convicted Monday in a jury trial of multiple charges related to child abuse he committed against a 2-year-old boy.
Jeremy Wilson, 30, was found guilty of “torture, aggravated sexual assault of a child, forcible sexual penetration of a child, and personal infliction of great bodily injury, among other charges,” the Placer County District Attorney’s Office said.
The conviction stems from a call in February 2020 in which deputies from the Placer County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a toddler who was “tortured, beaten, drugged and sodomized with an unknown object in his own home,” prosecutors said. The mother of the child discovered the abuse the morning after the attack and rushed her son to the emergency room.
At the hospital, it was documented that the boy had “over a dozen fresh adult bite marks covering his body,” among other serious injuries, the District Attorney’s Office said.
The Sheriff’s Office immediately investigated the sexual assault and arrested Wilson, the mother’s live-in boyfriend.
Supervising Deputy District Attorney Kalin Everett prosecuted the case. After a six-week trial, the jury delivered a guilty verdict, finding that Wilson was “a danger to society, he violated a position of trust, the victim was particularly vulnerable, and that this crime involved great violence, viciousness, and callousness,” according to prosecutors.
“This crime was particularly heinous. The defendant took out his frustrations with the child’s mother on her toddler in the middle of the night,” Everett said in a statement. “This assault was intended to be cruel and to cause the child pain. The jury had to hear and see some truly awful content, but after weighing all of the evidence, the jury returned just verdicts.”
Wilson will return to court in Auburn to be sentenced July 27.
