40 Year Prison Sentence For Former Rochester Man
Red Wing, MN (KROC-AM News) - A sentencing hearing was held this morning in Red Wing for a former Rochester man convicted of killing his infant son.
28-year-old Hunter Matthew McCutchen was charged last fall with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree manslaughter, and two counts of second-degree manslaughter. The criminal complaint also listed charges of third-degree assault, domestic assault, torture of a child and child neglect, along with malicious punishment of a child.
According to the criminal complaint, the Red Wing Fire Department responded to a residence in the Goodhue County community last May after receiving a report that an infant was not breathing. The first responders found the child unresponsive and transported him to the Red Wing hospital before he was airlifted to Rochester for treatment at St. Marys Hospital.
The charges against McCutchen say Mayo Clinic physicians found evidence of multiple rib fractures in various stages of healing, and a leg fracture. The medical report on the child states the injuries were "highly suggestive of non-accidental trauma.". The court document also states that imaging found multiple areas of bleeding on the brain, possibly due to "shaken baby syndrome."
The criminal complaint also states that the death of the infant occurred about a month after McCutchen and the child's mother had moved from Rochester to Red Wing. They had met in November 2021 and initially lived together in Rochester.
In July, McCutchen entered into a plea agreement inn Goodhue County Court and admitted to the second-degree murder charge. In exchange, all of the other charges were dismissed.
He has been sentenced to 40 years in prison with credit for the 471 days he has spent in jail since his arrest.
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