Sentenced: Male Suspect Accused Of Killing Infant Has A Troubling Past

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Lee County Sherriff's Office says the man accused of killing an infant in Lehigh Acres is no stranger to the law. Rolando Olivarez is charged with one count of second-degree murder. He was arrested Sunday for allegedly killing a one-year-old last September. The medical examiner ruled an injury to the child's head as the cause of death. According to law enforcement records, Olivarez has been in and out of jail for the last ten years.

Since 2010 Olivarez has been arrested for battery, burglary, and several probation violations. Records at the Lee County Clerk of Court show that the battery charge was connected to a domestic violence call, for which Olivarez was placed on probation. While Olivarez previous arrests are not linked to the death of the 1-year-old child, Meg Dalabes with Abuse Counseling and Treatment Inc. says his past arrests a show a pattern of violence.

Former police chief Walt Zalisko agrees. He says prosecutors could use the previous arrests to build arguments in court, but details matter. “They have to look at the facts of those previous cases,” he said. “What kind of battery was it? Did he beat a child? Did he beat his wife? Did he beat someone in a bar fight?”

Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said investigators have ruled out any mishaps in the infant’s death. “The injuries that the infant sustained were suspicious, and non-accidental,” he said.

Suspect accused of killing infant has a troubling past

A former police chief says Rolando Olivarez's past might be used against him in court when he stands trial in the death of a 1-year-old child. Olivarez is accused of killing the toddler back in September.

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Marceno described the suspect as an acquaintance and a caretaker of the child.

Investigators said the boy suffered blunt force trauma injuries to his head.

 

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A Lehigh Acres man pleaded guilty to the blunt force trauma death of a year-old boy in 2020 and will serve a 15-year sentence in prison.

Rolando Olivarez, 31, was charged with second-degree murder and aggravated manslaughter in the death of the toddler.

Olivarez entered a guilty plea to the manslaughter charge July 19 before Lee Circuit Judge Robert J. Branning.

The child was taken to Lehigh Regional Medical Center and then transferred to Tampa General, where he died five days later.

Olivarez also will serve 10 years probation and will have to pay more than $1,100 in fees and penalties.

Former caretaker of child gets 15 years in prison for toddler's blunt force trauma death

Rolando Olivarez has an arrest history in Lee County dating to 2010 that includes burglary, larceny and misdemeanor offenses

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The aunt should have been charged too.

According to a redacted affidavit from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, deputies at approximately 3:35 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2020 responded to a 911 call seeking medical assistance for an unconscious child at a home located in the 700 block of Homer Avenue. The caller, whose name is redacted from the document, said that the child was her maternal nephew and that her fiancé, Rolando Olivarez, was performing CPR on the baby while they waited for police and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to arrive. The child’s name was also redacted.

Upon arriving at the scene, first responders observed the aunt and Olivarez as they were “changing the unresponsive victim’s diaper” in the living room.

“Multiple first responders noted that the occupants displayed a calm demeanor and none of them appeared frantic, stressed, or concerned,” the affidavit states. The couple then informed authorities that in fact they had not performed CPR on the child, whom medics said had “multiple marks and bruises” that were visible. Medics were able to stabilize the baby and transported him to Lehigh Regional Medical Center.

The medical staff at the facility told investigators that the child’s injuries included a fractured skull, subdural hematoma, bruising on his right cheek, and bruising on both ears.

Due to the severity of his condition, the victim was transported to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) in St. Petersburg. He was placed on a ventilator in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, where he remained in critical condition for five days before succumbing to his injuries. He was pronounced dead at approximately 2:35 p.m. on Sept. 22.

The medical staff determined that the child suffered “a fatal abusive head trauma due to high force impact to the left side of the victim’s head resulting in a skull fracture.” Additionally, the baby also had severe bruising on his head and body as well as “extensive bilateral retinal hemorrhages and a lesion on the middle of his back.”

Based on the “severity of the medical condition and observations of deputies,” Olivarez and his disabled 71-year-old father were taken to the sheriff’s headquarters “to be interviewed as to their involvement in the incident,” according to the affidavit.

Olivarez initially denied that the child sustained any kind of trauma but later changed his story and claimed that the boy “fell and struck his head on an entertainment center.” A post-mortem medical examination found that the boy could not have sustained his injuries in such a manner, police said.

Olivarez then claimed that he walked into a bedroom and found his father, Ramon Olivarez, “standing over the victim and shouting, ‘Get up’ while holding his cane.” But investigators noted that Ramon was wheelchair-bound after suffering a debilitating stroke and was likely incapable of “generating the force necessary to inflict the severe injuries suffered by the victim.” Additionally, doctors said that Ramon had recently been deemed unable to walk with a cane, which he no longer used.

The medical examiner concluded that the boy suffered a “very high force impact to the left side of his head, resulting in a skull fracture and overlying soft tissue swelling,” as well as “retinal hemorrhaging that is consistent with high force acceleration/deceleration and rotational trauma to the eyes and brain.”

Rolando Olivarez’s children later told police that he frequently struck them with his hands and other objects, and was responsible for a bite mark on the leg of his daughter in what police called a “pattern of abuse.”

Man Sentenced to Prison for Beating 1-Year-Old to Death and Trying to Pin Blame on His Wheelchair-Bound Father

A 31-year-old Florida man will spend more than a decade behind bars for beating a 1-year-old child to death in 2020.

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What a dirtbag. Trying to implicate his disabled father is low.

 

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Name:	OLIVAREZ, ROLANDO

Current Release Date:	05/13/2035

Current Prison Sentence History:​

Offense Date	Offense	Sentence Date	County	Case No.	Prison Sentence Length
09/17/2020	AGG.MANSL.-CHILD	07/19/2022	LEE	2100362	15Y 0M 0D