Sentenced: Moms Boyfriend Charged With Murder After 17-Month Long Investigation In Weyers Cave

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Damian Nesselrodt was recently charged with the murder of an infant after an incident when authorities found a baby with bruises on its torso in 2023.

The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call about a baby not responding on April 8, 2023. There, authorities found an infant with bruises on its torso in the care of Nesselrodt. After 17 months of investigations, a grand jury indicted Nesselrodt for the murder.

According to court documents, Nesselrodt told investigators he had laid the baby down on a bobby pillow, scrolled on Facebook for several minutes and got up to use the restroom. Once he left the restroom, he found the baby unresponsive. Nesselrodt was the only caretaker in the home at the time.

After an autopsy was conducted on the child, the baby’s death was ruled as a homicide and the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the torso.

Nesselrodt is currently imprisoned for other charges at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. He has no court date set up for this incident yet.

 

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Defendant: NESSELRODT, DAMIAN DAVID

Disposition: GUILTY
Disposition Date: 05/20/2025

Concluded By: GUILTY PLEA

Jail/Penitentiary: PENITENTIARY

Sentence Time: 40 Year(s)
Sentence Suspended: 13 Year(s)
Probation Type: SUPERVISED
Probation Time: 5 Year(s)
Probation Starts: PROBATION TO BEGIN UPON RELEASE

• Release Date 05/26/2050

Nesselrodt’s agreed plea agreement deal terms are:

• Conviction of second-degree murder
• Sentenced to prison for 27 years
  • 40 years sentenced with 13 suspended on the basis of staying in good behavior for 40 years.
• He will serve a mandatory 5-year probation period after his prison sentence is served
• He is ordered not to contact any of the victim’s family
• He is ordered not to have any unsupervised contact with a minor

Wise County man convicted of second-degree murder in the death of infant

Damian Nesselrodt pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after more than a year of investigations by the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.

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