{"id":99544,"date":"2026-01-29T07:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99544\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:51:10","slug":"man-convicted-of-aggravated-assault-not-murder-in-childs-death-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99544\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of aggravated assault, not murder, in child&#8217;s death | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A man has been convicted of aggravated assault, but not murder, in the death of a child in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Elijah Matias was watching a three-year-old child who died in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The child went to the hospital in respiratory distress and died later that night.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say an autopsy showed the child had internal and external injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Matias is set to be sentenced in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A man has been convicted of aggravated assault, but not murder, in the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,22208,28,736],"class_list":["post-99544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-elijah-matias","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99544","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=99544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}