{"id":146393,"date":"2026-03-23T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:50:08","slug":"man-sentenced-up-to-20-years-for-assaulting-toddler-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146393\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced up to 20 years for assaulting toddler | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A man found guilty of assaulting a three-year-old boy in 2021 has leaned his fate.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah Matias will spend the next seven-and-a-half to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation found the toddler was in the care of Matias just before he went into respiratory distress.<\/p>\n<p>The boy later died.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy found multiple internal and external injuries that were in various stages of healing.<\/p>\n<p>Matias was found not guilty of murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A man found guilty of assaulting a three-year-old boy in 2021 has leaned his fate.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[22208,28,736,128,130,129,789],"class_list":["post-146393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-elijah-matias","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sentencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}