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Man Found Not Guilty In Toddler’s Death
April 21, 2018
An Escambia County man has been found not guilty for the beating death of Cornelius Savage, his girlfriends two-year old son.
The jury deliberated for about 18 hours total before acquitting 28-year-old Alonzo Thompkins.
Thompkins was on trial for abusing 2-year-old Cornelius Savage, who was found unresponsive by his mother in August 2016. The child was taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Doctors said the boy was covered in fist-shaped bruises and had been bleeding from the brain.
Investigators said the toddler was severely beaten and called his death an act of “malicious punishment.”
At the time of his arrest, Thompkins listed an address on Batson Lane in Cantonment.
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4 Responses to “Man Found Not Guilty In Toddler’s Death”
This story sickens me. If the child was in his care and was found unresponsive then who did it if not him? I’m with David on this one. Who was in the home with him when the mother was away? Who killed the baby?
You would think he would notice someone beating the child to death while in his care. I wonder if the jury has some other suspect.
David for better people
Someone killed this poor baby…Hope Escambia law enforcement makes the effort to find out who it was if not this guy.
I truly think the jury made the rite decision I say that because I been knowing Alonzo since he was a kid and he don’t have a violent bone in in him but I hope they find out who did that to that innocent kid and give them what they deserve