Sentenced: Holdrege Parents Charged After 4MO Infant Dies From Severe Injuries & Abuse

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A Holdrege couple faces child abuse charges for severe injuries to their four-month old daughter.

24 year old Jason Remmenga has been charged with intentional child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury and two counts of intentional child abuse. All three charges are felonies.

The mother of the infant, 21 year old Elaina Nietfeld has also been charged with two counts of intentional child abuse.

Holdrege Police Department Officers were notified that Remmenga took his infant daughter to the Phelps County Medical Center emergency room in Holdrege around 9:00pm on May 20th. The infant was transported to a Kearney hospital and then transferred to Children’s Hospital in Omaha where she remains in critical condition.

Medical staff determined the infant had bleeding on the brain along with a skull fracture. Fractures were found on several ribs that were healing, an indication that those injuries occurred at a separate time from the head trauma.

Two charged with child abuse in Holdrege

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Holdrege Police said they interviewed Remmenga and Nietfeld who both stated the infant was in Remmenga’s care from around 3 p.m. May 20 to the time they took her to Phelps Memorial in Holdrege around 9 p.m. that night.

The affidavit said Remmenga said he was changing the infant’s diaper, sat her down on a changing mat and walked away momentarily. When he returned, he said the infant was choking up formula from her mouth and nose.

Two Holdrege residents charged after infant suffers severe injuries and abuse

Two Holdrege residents face charges after an infant suffered extensive injuries.

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A four-month-old baby girl has died from her injuries in a Holdrege child abuse case.

Phelps County Attorney Natalie Nelsen-Pacey confirmed to Local4 that Lea Remmenga died on Sunday, June 9 at Children’s Hospital in Omaha.


The baby’s father Jason Remmenga is charged in Phelps County with three felony counts of intentional child abuse with one of those charges being intentional child abuse-resulting in serious bodily injury.

Nelsen-Pacey said she has yet to, but plans to upgrade the charge to intentional child abuse-resulting in death.

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According to court records, 25-year-old Jason Remmenga was sentenced in Phelps County District Court for a term of 14 to 18 years.

Remmenga had taken a plea deal earlier this year. He pleaded no contest to negligent child abuse resulting in death for the 2024 death of his daughter, Lea.

Remmenga had been charged with intentional child abuse resulting in death, but that was amended as part of the deal. Two other charges were dropped.

According to the arrest affidavit, Holdrege Police were contacted by staff at a Kearney hospital on May 21, 2024 about a possible incident of child abuse. The officer said in the affidavit that once the baby started getting treated, hospital staff found she had bleeding from the brain as well as several fractures to her ribs, which were already beginning to heal.

The case against the child’s mother was dismissed.

Elaina Nietfeld had faced two counts of felony child abuse in Phelps County Court, but prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the charges with prejudice.

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