A January 2019 trial date has been set for three people facing murder charges in connection with the death of 6-month-old Wyllow Brewer.
Kylie Brewer, Jon-Paul Bogdanowich Jr. and Kaylie Gossett are all facing charges of first-degree murder and child abuse stemming from Wyllow’s Feb. 19 death.
In December, the Pima County Attorney’s Office offered plea deals to all three defendants, which they rejected. Details of the deals were not immediately available.
Wyllow’s autopsy, which was finalized in June, lists her cause of death as “infectious complications of blunt force injuries with malnutrition as a significant contributing factor,” according to the Pima County medical examiner’s report.
The autopsy also revealed bruises all over her body, including her head, torso arms and legs.
Physicians’ reports from Banner-University Medical Center showed that Wyllow had a bruise on her head, blood in her nose and mouth, and fractures to both her arms and legs, according to a search warrant return filed in Pima County Superior Court.
One doctor told detectives that Wyllow had a severe infection on one of her arms and “would have been in a lot of pain,” the warrant return shows.
Brewer is Wyllow’s mother and Bogdanowich was Brewer’s boyfriend at the time of Wyllow’s death. Gossett is a friend of the couple’s, police documents show.
At the time of their arrests, Brewer and Bogdanowich told detectives that friends watched Wyllow the night before while they were at work, and that Bogdanowich called 911 after finding the baby unresponsive in her crib the morning of her death.
Detectives who searched the home noted that the crib appeared to have not been slept in, according to the warrant return.
In court Monday, Brewer’s lawyer, Bobbi Berry, said she wouldn’t be ready for trial until December, because she’d retained an expert witness who would be tied up in another trial until that time.
Brewer is the only one of the defendants still in custody at the Pima County jail, as Bogdanowich and Gossett were previously released on bond.
Gossett was represented Monday by Leo Plowman, and Bogdanowich by Paul Skitzki.
“This is a complicated case and I think it’s going to take that long to prepare, anyways,” Berry told Judge Kenneth Lee.
Berry said she anticipated filing a motion to sever Brewer’s case from the other defendants and that it was likely Bogdanowich’s and Gossett’s attorneys would do the same, allowing each defendant a separate trial.
The trial, expected to last about two weeks, is scheduled for Jan. 8, 2019.
The attorneys have until March 2 to file motions to sever.
