WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) A 49-year-old father entered a not guilty plea to charges related to the death of his 15-year-old son. Robert Glazner is accused of failing to properly manage and treat his son’s diabetes, leading to the boy’s death.
Glazner is charged with second-degree reckless homicide in the Aug. 4 death of 15-year-old Bryden Glazner. He’ll be back in court on April 4th for a pre-trial hearing. A trial date has not been set.
According to a criminal complaint, the father did not check his son’s blood sugar, even though he was vomiting the night before he died. The boy’s last sugar reading was two days earlier.
The teen was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2014, the complaint said, characterizing the father as resistant to being educated on how to treat the disease. He told a nurse that she “had no right to advise him that he needed to attend diabetes education,” only a judge could do that.
The teen’s parents were divorced, and they had shared custody. The boy’s grandmother found his body at her home on Parcher Street where the father and son were also living. The father was arrested in Sheboygan Falls.
Glazner has been in jail, unable to post a $100,000 cash bond. The judge reduced that to signature bond on Friday on the condition that Glazner’s parents sign for the bond and that he establish a local address.
The maximum punishment for second-degree reckless homicide is 25 years in prison.
