It took a jury less than two hours Friday to convict a 37-year-old Navy veteran of second-degree murder for killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in 2010, according to court records.
Nicholas James Rivet told his girlfriend her son was unresponsive in January 2010 and the child was taken to a hospital where he died a few days later, according to the State Attorney’s Office.
It was determined the child died as a result of abusive head trauma, prosecutors said.