{"id":135692,"date":"2026-01-16T04:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:56:06","slug":"jury-selection-to-begin-in-trial-of-eduardo-gutierrez-accused-of-infant-abuse-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135692\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury selection to begin in trial of Eduardo Gutierrez, accused of infant abuse death"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Jury selection is set to begin next week in the trial of Eduardo Gutierrez, a Bakersfield man accused of abusing an infant, leading to the baby’s death in late 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old was arrested in November 2024 after a 1-month-old boy was found unresponsive at a home in east Bakersfield.<\/p>\n

\"{p}FILE:<\/p>\n

FILE: Eduardo Gutierrez in court on Wednesday, December 18, 2024. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n

On November 24, 2024, a one-month-old was found unresponsive at around 6:03 p.m. in the 1000 block of Washington Street by Kern County deputies. The infant was taken to Memorial Hospital and transferred to a children’s hospital in Madera, where they died on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS REPORTING: Man’s bail revoked in case of alleged abuse resulting in infant’s death<\/a><\/p>\n

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In December 2024, Gutierrez was under mandatory supervision due to a prior felony domestic conviction involving the child’s mother at the time of his arrest. Despite his age and previously having a clean criminal record\u2014which had led to a lighter sentence for that crime\u2014the judge chose to revoke his bail.<\/p>\n

A Kern County courtroom has been assigned to the trial. Jurors will be selected from a pool until next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Jury selection is set to begin next week in the trial of Eduardo Gutierrez, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-135692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}