DA Collin Sims reports that last week Judge William H. Burris sentenced 32-year-old Corey Nauck, Sr. of Folsom to life in prison for the first-degree murder of Nauck’s 7-month-old son, Carter Nauck.
In March, a St. Tammany jury convicted Nauck on the murder charge at the conclusion of a four-day trial. Assistant District Attorneys Iain Dover and Angelina Valuri presented the case to the jury. Detective Daniel Buckner with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office was the lead detective in the investigation.
According to trial testimony, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office was notified at approximately 9:10 am, on February 26, 2018, that an infant arrived at St. Tammany Parish Hospital in critical condition with suspicious head injuries. The baby had been brought to the STPH emergency room by his father, Corey Nauck, who did not initially explain how the child had been injured while they were home together, after his wife went to work earlier that morning. Medical personnel testified that Nauck provided numerous explanations about how the baby had been gravely injured, which included the baby being dropped and alternatively the baby falling off a changing table. Due to the severity of the baby’s skull fractures, the child was airlifted to a Southshore hospital, where he was determined by medical officials to have no brain activity. Two days later, on February 28, 2018, the baby was taken off life support and died shortly thereafter.
Following an autopsy conducted that same day, the baby’s death was ruled a homicide. The autopsy not only confirmed the baby suffered multiple skull fractures but also revealed bruising over the infant’s chest and buttocks. Additionally, the autopsy revealed a prior rib fracture that was in the process of healing.
Law enforcement officials located and arrested Nauck later that evening at a family member’s home in Mississippi. Nauck eventually confessed that he had “lost it” after his son wouldn’t stop crying. The jury concluded Nauck acted with the specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily injury upon his son and found him guilty.
As he did at the conclusion of the trial, District Attorney Collin Sims would once again like to thank the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, the St. Tammany Parish Hospital, the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office, the Department of Children and Family Services, the Child Advocacy Center, and Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans for all of their hard work and dedication in this case.
