Man to plead guilty in beating death of adopted son

3-year-old Hyunsu O'Callaghan was "beaten to death from head to toe."



Here's a guy who can rot in prison. A former division chief for the National Security Agency is expected to plead guilty this month to beating his adopted three-year-old son to death, according to court documents.

Onetime NSA division chief to plead guilty in young son's death, court files show

38-year-old Brian O'Callaghan, onetime chief of the NSA's Korea division, was arrested and charged last year in connection with the beating death of his son Hyunsu O'Callaghan, who had special needs, just months after Callaghan and his wife adopted him from South Korea.

Hyunsu was severely beaten while in the care of O'Callaghan in January 2014. The family claimed it was a tragic accident. Investigators say O'Callaghan repeatedly struck the child, hitting him so hard that the boy died two days later. According to the State's Attorney, "Basically this child was beaten to death from head to toe."

Man charged with murder of 3-year-old adopted son

Prosecutors say Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan was beaten to death

Disturbed by this terrible story out of the DC area... In Maryland, a veteran and high-ranking NSA agent is accused of brutally beating his adopted 3-year-old son from South Korea to death.

Montgomery County Man Charged With Murdering 3-Year-Old Adopted Son

36-year-old Brian Patrick O'Callaghan was charged with first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan, who was adopted months earlier from Korea. According to authorities, the child suffered a fracture at the base of his skull, bruises to the forehead, bleeding in the brain and other wounds.

O'Callaghan claims that the boy fell and was injured in the shower: