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Sentenced: Man Says Deceased 4YO Boy's Injuries Were From 'Horse-Play"

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An Eldridge truck driver is in an Indiana jail following his potential connection to the death of a 4-year-old boy.

According to the LaGrange County Sheriff's Office, Dylan Diericx, 35, was charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death.

As reported by The News Sun, the boy had multiple serious injuries including fractures to his clavicle and shoulder blade, facial bruises, abrasions and lacerations to his genitalia, and blunt force trauma to the head.

These injuries ultimately resulted in the child's death after Diericx's failure to seek medical attention for his serious injuries, according to the sheriff's office.

Diericx claims the child's injuries were a result of "horse-play," reported The News Sun. He also told authorities the child, who is the son of Diericx's girlfriend, has been under his supervision since August 15.

Police arrived on scene to the unresponsive child in the sleeper of Diericx's truck. He later told authorities the child had been injured "by accident" at least three times, according to the report.

The child was airlifted to a medical center in Fort Wayne where he later died.

Court documents state hospital staff told police the child's injuries did not match Diericx's story.
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When Jenna Bruck started a website to honor her late 4-year-old nephew, she never expected it to get as much attention as it did. She's hoping she can use it to make a difference in children's custody decisions.

Bruck saw one of these decisions first-hand, when her nephew and niece were returned to the custody of her sister, Victoria Welford, on April 1 of this year. Bruck's 4-year-old nephew, Brantley Welford, was killed a little less than five months later while under the care of his mother's boyfriend in Indiana.
After Brantley's death, Bruck set up a Facebook page and a website, both titled "Justice for Brantley."

"Brantley left a mark on everyone's heart. He was just a loveable kid. Now there is just a huge void in all of our lives. He will forever be missed," Bruck said. "He was a kid that just wanted to please everyone. He wanted to do well, he wanted to succeed."

Bruck said she originally started the Justice for Brantley page to keep people updated on the case against Dylan Diericx, Victoria Welford's boyfriend, who is charged in Indiana with neglect of a dependent resulting in death. The page quickly grew bigger than Bruck had anticipated. She said she hopes to use the page to hold accountable the court system that returned Brantley and his sister to their mother.

Bruck said Victoria and her former husband Jay Welford, the kids' biological father, lost custody of the kids in 2018 because of alleged medical abuse against Brantley's sister. The kids were placed in foster care while the case was investigated and in August 2020 the parents' rights were terminated and the foster family moved to adopt the children. Victoria and Jay both appealed the termination and in October 2020 the Iowa Appellate Court overturned the termination of Victoria's rights but upheld the termination of Jay's rights.

The children then started the process of reunification and were returned to Victoria's full-time care on April 1. The kids lived with Victoria and Diericx in an apartment in Eldridge.

Victoria and Jay had been separated since mid-2020, according to Bruck, though Clinton County court records show they weren't officially divorced until August 2021. Victoria started dating Diericx in November 2020, Bruck said.

"I plan on using the (Justice for Brantley) page to hold those accountable that played a hand in having the termination (of Victoria's parental rights) overturned," Bruck said. "We would like to see some changes to the reunification process. Stricter rules around supervised visits, deeper vetting of people that are going to be around the kids, a mandatory number of hours spent in parenting classes, counseling for the parents, stricter rules on what the appellate court bases their decisions on. If you are going to overturn the termination of one parent and not the other and they are still married, what are your expectations of DHS?"

Bruck said most of all she wants to use the page to honor Brantley's memory and make sure the truth about what happened to him is known.

Brantley died in a hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he was airlifted after Diericx called 911 on Aug. 19 to report Brantley was seriously injured, according to an arrest affidavit. Diericx claimed Brantley had been injured accidentally when Diericx had tossed the child onto a bunk bed in the sleeper of Diericx's semi-tractor. Diericx also admitted the child had been injured at other points during the five days he was under Diericx's care.

Brantley, who would have turned 5 just a few days after the incident, had serious injuries, including fractures in the clavicle and shoulder blade, bruises and abrasions on the face, lacerations and blunt force trauma to the back of the head, bruises to genitalia, injury and bleeding from the anus, cuts on an arm, a broken lip and burns around the mouth and other parts of the body, the affidavit states.

The medical staff at the hospital reportedly said the injuries suffered by the child were not consistent with the explanations given by Diericx.

Diericx was arrested for neglect in relation to the death. He faces 20 to 40 years in prison if convicted. He was being held in the LaGrange County Jail in Indiana but was released on bond earlier this month.

Bruck said Brantley's sister has been removed from her mother's custody and is currently living with her paternal grandmother.

"Brantley was a vibrant little boy. He loved to play soccer and baseball. ... He loved to play with tractors, combines, monster trucks, firetrucks, any kind of truck or farm equipment he could get his hands on," Bruck said. "He loved to help out with chores, whether they were in the house or on the farm. He was always there and willing to lend a helping hand with a big smile on his face. He loved it when you would tell him he did a great job and that he made your heart happy."
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bruises to genitalia, injury and bleeding from the anus, what horse play would cause that???? my good that poor little boy and yes also those poor people that loved those 2 kids and were in the process of adopting them .. i remember how i didn't breathe from when i applied till the day the adoptions were finalized (and back then it was a year for the parents to change their minds... how it would have killed me if the parents had changed their minds and to know that those kids were removed and handed back to a parent and then killed i don't know if i could ever ever have gotten over that...
 
Yeah, we were devastated when Axe and my son's adopted son, E, had to go back to an abuser whose bail was restored. He was accused of sexually abusing E's sister but wasn't allowed to be around him until he somehow got a new bond. It wasn't 3 weeks in bad dad's custody that he got him drunk and sexually abused him. E had passed out and woke up to that when they went to dad's car to "listen to music".

He wasn't arrested though. E was taken to the hospital, I guess, for a rape kit or whatever and CPS picked him up from there and whisked him away to a group home near Houston. We were absolutely frantic initially until CPS got us contact info and we were able to talk to him about where he was and the conditions there. Still, it was a few months before he could return to us and eventually with help from CPS he was adopted into our family.
 
According to a probable-cause affidavit, the Eldridge boy was the son of Diericx’s girlfriend. Diericx said they were engaged in “horse-play” in the cab of a semi when the child was injured.

Diericx told investigators he had tossed the boy on the bunk in the sleeper of his semi, and the child hit his head on a “fixed object,” the affidavit said. The boy then began convulsing and became unconscious, Diericx said, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit says the boy’s injuries were not consistent with that explanation. The child suffered “fractures to his clavicle and shoulder blade, bruises and abrasions on the right and left side of his face, bruises on his forehead, laceration and blunt force trauma to the back of the head, bruises to genitalia, injury and bleeding from the victim’s anus, cuts to his arm, a busted lip and burns around his mouth and on various parts of his body.”

The arrest affidavit says Diericx “failed to secure proper medical attention” for the boy after the child had been exposed to “three or more incidents where the child received serious injuries, which resulted in the child being airlifted to Parkview North in Fort Wayne, IN, and ultimately resulted in the child’s death.”
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Diericx earlier was released on bond from LaGrange County Jail in Indiana.
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He tortured that poor baby.
 
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Satanica said:
Yeah, we were devastated when Axe and my son's adopted son, E, had to go back to an abuser whose bail was restored. He was accused of sexually abusing E's sister but wasn't allowed to be around him until he somehow got a new bond. It wasn't 3 weeks in bad dad's custody that he got him drunk and sexually abused him. E had passed out and woke up to that when they went to dad's car to "listen to music".

He wasn't arrested though. E was taken to the hospital, I guess, for a rape kit or whatever and CPS picked him up from there and whisked him away to a group home near Houston. We were absolutely frantic initially until CPS got us contact info and we were able to talk to him about where he was and the conditions there. Still, it was a few months before he could return to us and eventually with help from CPS he was adopted into our family.
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Such a horrific experience :(
 
Satanica said:
It truly was and the anxiety we felt was almost unbearable. I hope that asshole goes to trial this year and that he gets at least 20 years. E's sister can't wait to testify, and believe me, she is strong enough to look him right in the eyes while she does it. The entire thing may be by Zoom though.
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I can only imagine! How are they coping with it now?
I'm crossing my fingers that he will getha sentences that can give the children some sort of feeling of justice..
 
A can't wait to get to court while E doesn't want to have to face the asshole. He once idolized his sperm donor. What's really, really sad is that asshole's side of the family hasn't tried to contact him or us to find out how he's doing. I think they threw A under the bus years ago, but she still has some contact with her bio mom's sister. Bio mom gave up her rights as she's dope fucked. Grandpa and grandma sided with their asshole son. Honestly, E doesn't seem to be bothered by this as he's happy with our family, and everyone including the extended family has embraced him as "one of us". He's so much more confident now and much more comfortable in his own skin, although he's still a bit shy. He definitely should feel confident, especially since my son has allowed him to practice driving his precious Dodge Charger.

Asshole, I think, wanted to keep him immature which suited his perverted tastes and desire to control E. For instance, E used to have long hair which my son teased him about back then. E told me asshole wouldn't let him cut it, and I suspect it was part of his pedo kink. If you haven't read all of my posts about this, you may have missed the fact that he also had at least one adult female victim that we know about. Unfortunately, she threw away the USB she found with video on it of him assaulting her while she was alseep. She had a medical condition from an old head injury, so she didn't wake up when disturbed. If only she hadn't destroyed the evidence.

I do want to say again how much I appreciate the case workers we dealt with and the legal aid, everyone. There ARE good people working in the system and there are good group home parents, and we were blessed to have had them on E's case.
 
He would give up his life to have “the little guy” back.

“If I could give my life for his back, I would. Name the time and the day,” Dylan Diericx, 35, of Eldridge, told Local 4 News on Wednesday.
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Diericx spoke with us two days before his sentencing. Diericx, who still was out on bond at that time, met with Local 4 News, where he – along with his girlfriend Tiffany Stogdill – talked about what Diericx says was a botched investigation into the death of 4-year-old Brantley Welford.
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Diericx, accused in Brantley’s death, pleaded guilty to a charge of neglect of a dependent resulting in death, a Level 1 felony which, his bail agent told Local 4 News, in Indiana is “the highest felony you can get.”

Diericx said he agreed to 32 years for the charge, which carries the possibility of a 40-year sentence. Attorneys told him murder charges might be added if he did not take the plea, he said.
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It was Aug. 19, 2021, when Shipshewana Police were called for a young boy unresponsive and in critical condition. He was taken by helicopter to a Fort Wayne hospital, where he ultimately died, officials say.

Brantley was the son of Diericx’s girlfriend. Diericx is not the boy’s father.

Brantley’s preschool was understaffed, so the boy was not in school at the time. Diericx gave the boy the choice of staying at his grandmother’s or going trucking (Brantley had ridden with him before). Brantley chose going on the road.

“Now if I was an abuser, why would he say ‘Yes?’” Diericx asks.

Diericx said he that he had tossed the boy on the bunk in the sleeper of his semi, and the child hit his head on a small plastic hook.

“He cried out, and I held on to him. I laid him down, and I saw that he was breathing.” His arms and legs were moving, he said.

Diericx said many times he is “not a medical person.” But he did see that Brantley had scratched the back of his head on a small plastic hook, and Diericx says he put some Neosporin on it.

After that, Diericx says he continued to drive down the road and look back at Brantley or pull over to check on him. “I stopped a few more times,” Diericx said.

What Diericx calls an accident happened about an hour from Shipshewana on the tollway. “Every five seconds I’m looking back there,” he said.

He got the truck loaded and got back in and went to check on Brantley. “That’s when I noticed he was getting cooler to the touch,” Diericx said. He called the little boy’s mother, who told him to call 911, and Diericx did.

According to court records, the boy’s injuries were not consistent with what Diericx has said. Documents say the child suffered “fractures to his clavicle and shoulder blade, bruises and abrasions on the right and left side of his face, bruises on his forehead, laceration and blunt force trauma to the back of the head, bruises to genitalia, injury and bleeding from the victim’s anus, cuts to his arm, a busted lip and burns around his mouth and on various parts of his body.”

Diericx says he does not know how some of those injuries happened. But he does say Brantley fell some distance off the steps leading up to the truck the Monday before “after I told him to stay in the truck,” he said.

Brantley hit his head, Direcx said. He went to Walmart to buy Neosporin and lip balm, and also bought some bruise cream because Brantley was scheduled to have his preschool picture taken the next week.

“He never cried,” Diericx said.

Also, Diericx has an explanation for a “line” on the lower part of the boy’s body.

The two were out at a farm, cutting down a tree and cleaning up overgrowth. When a utility tractor they were on hit a stump, they both flew off.

“These cuts that they’re talking about? From tree limbs,” Diericx said

Diericx, who was a truck driver for about 10 years, was gone “all the time,” he said. He did not know about any broken bones, he said.

When Diericx went to the LaGrange County Courthouse, he was interviewed and then arrested.

He says he was in shock – “Look at the picture on my mugshot,” he said.

Officials “did not do their job,” he says. “I didn’t tell them ‘No’ to a lie detector test. I told them I wanted my lawyer there. They told the world I said ‘No.’”

“From the first interview to the second to the third to the fourth, they didn’t listen to me.”

Diericx feels betrayed by some people he has known for a long time, some of whom have expressed their opinions on social media and others who have spoken with reporters. Some of Brantley’s relatives have spoken out and “collected on his death,” Diericx said. “They have used (the boy’s death) as an opportunity for lining their pockets.”

Diericx speaks directly and his gaze never wavers when he talks about what happened in the past, whether it’s a few minutes he spent in jail some years back for driving on a revoked license – the only prior incident – or how he planned for Brantley’s birthday party. (He bought Brantley $200 worth of birthday gifts, including boots, bibs, and Legos.)

On Friday he left behind some supportive friends and family members – including a daughter born to him and Brantley’s mother in March. That child is in foster care, he said.

Meanwhile, he began serving his sentenced Friday after a morning hearing in LaGrange County Court.

Diericx has some advice for everyone: To take injuries seriously, and “Stay away from Indiana. They don’t do their job.”
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Sugar Cookie said:
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QC trucker sentenced to 32 years in boy’s death

He would give up his life to have “the little guy” back. “If I could give my life for his back, I would. Name the time and the day,” Dylan Diericx, 35, of Eldridge, told Local 4 News on Wedn…
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He would give up his life to have “the little guy” back.

“If I could give my life for his back, I would. Name the time and the day,” Dylan Diericx, 35, of Eldridge, told Local 4 News on Wednesday.

If that were the way it works. Could easily 'correct' all those innocent deaths.

Of course, we could execute him and see...
 
If I start going on and on about how the word "reunification" is getting on my last nerve I'll be here all day and no one would have the patience to read it all. ("Broken home" is another of my pet peeves but that's a whole other discussion.)

You can't REunify something that was never UNIFIED in the first place. Putting a bunch of people together under the same roof is not unification. It's just putting a bunch of people under the same roof who probably don't want to be there and can't stand each other.

Bottom line, it's all about the bottom line. The State and court systems don't want to pay out money to foster families. It's all about the money, honey!

Speaking strictly for myself, I'm for saving individuals first, not couples, not families. Some people aren't even "unified" with themselves as individuals, so how can they hope to unify with anyone else?

Now, a quick word from our sponsor about broken families. It's better to come from a broken family than to live in one.
 
DYLAN A DIERICX
Earliest Possible Release Date* 05/28/2046



Date of Sentence06/24/2022
DescriptionNEGLECT OF DEPENDENT RESULTING IN DEATH
Term in Years / Months / Days
320000000



Projected Release Date 05/28/2046
 
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