West Allis Woman Pleads Guilty To Neglect Charge In 6-Year-Old's Death

WEST ALLIS, WI — A West Allis woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of neglecting a child until death and physical abuse, online court records showed.

Tasha M. Rockow, 32, was charged in Sept. 2021 in connection with the death of her 6-year-old son. The court convicted Rockow of second-degree reckless homicide on Wednesday and convicted her of the charges she pleaded guilty to, but a charge of false imprisonment was dismissed, according to online court records. Rockow's sentencing hearing was scheduled for Oct. 10.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by Patch in 2021, first responders found the child at a home in West Allis on Sept. 6, 2021, with bruises covering him and a small stab wound that appeared to possibly be from an earlier injury. He appeared malnourished and later died at the hospital, the complaint said.

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According to the complaint, Rockow said the boy was playing with a knife and fell on the day of his death, Patch previously reported. People who lived nearby described accounts of possible abuse, according to the complaint.

The child previously lived with his father, who died in 2020, and was living with his mother, according to the complaint.