Emiliano Garcia-Cruz (Photo/WISN)
Julio Cruz, father of 6-month-old Emiliano Garcia-Cruz, was charged in his son's death.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Emiliano, who was 6 months old, died Sunday of injuries so violent that they caused his eyes to bleed. His 19-year-old father, Julio Cruz, was charged Wednesday with killing him.
According to a criminal complaint, Garcia and Cruz shared custody of their son. Thursday through Sunday, the baby lived with his father. The rest of the time, he lived with his mom.
Cruz has given police conflicting accounts of how the injuries occurred, the complaint says.
He said he was playing a video game Saturday when the infant, who lay on his chest, stopped breathing. He said he tripped over a toy and dropped the child. He said he was lying on his bed, bouncing the baby on his legs and he accidentally let go. He said he was throwing the child in the air to stop him from crying and missed. He said he was rocking the child, accidentally let go, tossing him head-first into a wall.
WISN reports that Cruz told police "he accidentally threw the baby into a wall."
Unless there's some sort of catastrophe, like a massive earthquake or tornado or the floor literally falls out from under you, there's no way you can accidentally throw a 6-month-old baby into a wall.
It doesn't happen.
...Cruz is charged with second-degree reckless homicide. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison.
The charge against him brings the number of fatal child abuse cases open in Milwaukee County Circuit Court to nine.
..."I don't know what's going on," said Assistant District Attorney Mark Williams, head of the Milwaukee County district attorney's homicide unit. "In 18 years, I haven't seen this many baby deaths in this short of time."
This is an absolutely horrific trend.
Why are so many parents killing their children?
What they've done to their helpless, innocent babies is incomprehensible to me.
2 comments:
No Christian influence in the home. That's all.
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And its a one act play.
I think its obvious he just didn't have the patience to take care of a crying baby, as most young parents don't, unfortunately he made the mistake by not calling anyone for some help and instead hurt the baby out of fustration. There are a lot of people that can judge right away and forget that everyone makes mistakes and we learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others. Let this be an eye opener for all of us to always offer help to anyone that may need it. Its horrible this had to happen to a 6 month old baby. God bless his little soul. I believe both sides of the family are hurting because of this, and both families are in my prayers. Rest in peace baby Emiliano.
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