Stepfather charged in 2-year-old's death

WAUPACA - A Waupaca man is charged with killing his 2-year-old stepson in May.

Twenty-eight-year-old Joseph A. Jackson was charged Wednesday with first-degree reckless homicide.

According to the criminal complaint, Jackson said he held the boy face-down on a bed to try to get the boy to stop crying. Eventually, the boy stopped breathing.

Full story: WJFW

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