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Willie L. Jackson III, 24, a nursing home attendant, had faced a possible life sentence before being convicted of the lesser charge of recklessness that caused a child's injury. According to investigators, Jackson said he had only learned of his son's existence when he was 14-months old and that his son had come to live with him about a month before he died. The boy's biological mother, Lauren Green of Grand Prairie, had allowed the boy to move into the his father's apartment in Conroe after her arrest on a home burglary charge. Prosecutors refuted Jackson's claim that he twice called '911' when his chid was in respiratory distress, because phone records showed that he'd only called once after he'd taken 40 minutes to do a web search about baby's gasping for air, Prewitt said. After dialing, he handed the phone to his girlfriend's mother who talked to the operator and followed CPR instructions until emergency medical workers arrived to transport him to the hospital.