ROCKLAND – Aziayh Scott, 23, of Louisiana, was indicted by a Knox County grand jury on Oct. 8 on a single count of manslaughter in connection with the May 29 death of 22-month-old Quayshawn Wilson in Thomaston.

Scott is scheduled to appear in Knox County court on Nov. 14 for his arraignment where he will be asked by the state to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty on the charge of manslaughter.

In Maine, the maximum sentence for manslaughter is a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

The criminal complaint states that Scott “did recklessly or with criminal negligence cause the death of a minor child with a date of birth July 7, 26, 2022.”

He has remained at the Knox County Jail in Rockland on $150, 000 cash bail since he was arrested June 5 in New Orleans.

Detectives learned after going to his residence in Owls Head on June 4 that the couple had returned to Louisiana.

Maine State Police Detectives coordinated with Louisiana State Police and the U.S. Marshals Service Maine Violent Offender Task Force to arrest Scott, according to the Maine’s Department of Public Safety in a June 5 news release.

Scott who is originally from Louisiana, had recently moved to Maine and was living with his girlfriend and the toddler in Owls Head.

On May 29, 2024, at approximately 7:26 p.m., Thomaston Police, Fire and Rescue responded to the Walmart in Thomaston for a report of a child not breathing. The child was transported to Pen Bay Medical Center, where the child was pronounced dead.   

A nurse on site was the first to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation to the toddler, said police.   

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta conducted an autopsy on May 30, and ruled the cause of death was blunt force trauma and the manner of death of was homicide.

The child’s injuries included a lacerated liver and the examiner said in the report that the death producing injury would have likely occurred in the 24 hours proceeding the child’s death, according to the court document.

Attorney Chris MacLean of the Dirigo Law Group LLP in Camden is the court appointed attorney to represent Scott.

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