HAMILTON — A Butler County court case alleging abuse of a child ended with a guilty verdict Wednesday, while one alleging abuse of a mentally retarded man has ended in a mistrial.

        After about 90 minutes of deliberation, a common pleas jury on Wednesday convicted Jonathan A. Whyte, 22, of felony child endangering with the specification that he caused serious physical harm to his fiancee's young son. The Middletown child, now almost 2,sufferedbrain injury that put him in a coma in September.

        Judge Keith Spaeth set sentencing for May 23.

        Meanwhile, Judge H. J. Bressler set a July 1 trial date for Timothy Lee Ivers, 39, on charges of patient abuse and misdemeanor assault. He is accused of dragging a mentally retarded man into the restroom of a Hamilton workshop and disciplining him for misbehaving. Portions of the incident were captured on videotape.

        The judge declared a mistrial in that case late Tuesday afternoon, after a dispute arose over whether a document should have been included in the trial.

        A motion to suppress that document is set to be heard April 19.

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