Man Guilty In Connection With Death Of Toddler

A Middletown man was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and a drug possession last week.

Coco Wallace, 39, of Middletown’s Levittown section, was found guilty last week during a non-jury trial at the Bucks County Justice Center in Doylestown. Wallace was not found guilty of a homicide charge that prosecutors tried to make the case for.

Wallace was charged in connection with the overdose death of his 2-year-old son in 2014. The little boy, Sebastian, was taken from Wallace’s apartment at Foxwood Manor in Levittown to Lower Bucks Hospital on October 22, 2014, but the boy was unable to be saved, according to court records. Police said  1200 mg of Oxycodone was found in the 2-year-old’s body.

“He kept saying, ‘I killed my son. I killed my son. God forgive me. I killed my son,’ ” an inmate who Wallace reportedly confessed to testified, according to Philly.com.

It came out in the trial last week that Wallace was upset at Sebastian’s mother for possibly cheating on him.

Police said the 2 year old ingested the large amount of pills while in the sole care of Wallace. The question previous to the alleged confession was whether Wallace purposefully was trying to kill his son by leaving the drugs or whether he was just careless.

Wallace reportedly lied to police about whether he had possession of the pills. His girlfriend and young boy’s mother, a resident of North Carolina, told investigators they were traveling with Wallace on I-95 when he chucked a large bag of pills out of the car.

“We are very pleased with the verdict. He was not convicted of murder, but found negligent for allowing his son to get the pills,” Langhorne-based defense John Kerrigan, Jr., who represented Wallace, told the Doylestown Intelligencer.

“I miss you a lot have not slept for weeks. Hope you understand my lil man, daddy loved U no matter what !!” Wallace wrote on Facebook following his son’s death.

Wallace operated an erotic video business and said the “empire” must continue following his son’s death.

Wallace’s 9-year-old daughter also lived with him in Middletown.