Man 'smashed his newborn daughter's skull with a cinder block'

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | June 14, 2011 | Fiona Roberts

[madprof98]

A father allegedly killed his baby daughter with a cinder block just hours after she was born - because he and the little girl's mother couldn't afford to have another child.

Christopher Fitzpatrick, 20, allegedly told his girlfriend, Jennifer Barrise, 'I just want to get rid of it' as she started having contractions while they were out shopping near their home in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania. Both have now been charged with criminal homicide after police found their daughter's tiny body buried in woodland near Fitzpatrick's workplace.

Barrise, 28, already has five little boys, all aged under nine. The youngest, Christopher - her first child with Fitzpatrick - was born just a year ago in Franklin, New Jersey, where the couple used to live.

Now the couple are both being held at Wayne County Jail on murder charges. Police claim Barrise knew Fitzpatrick planned to kill their baby.

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When Barrise had the baby, the little girl landed on the floor - and neither of her parents touched her as she lay crying, the affidavit claims.

According to police, Fitzpatrick drove his girlfriend, daughter and sister back to their home, but later picked up the baby and drove to M n D Lawn Care, where he worked.

There he allegedly picked up a cinder block and dropped it twice on his daughter's head, smashing her skull. Then he buried her tiny body beneath the concrete block and drove home.

[phockthis]

wtf

[momtothree]

“... here in my office, I wept”

That is because you have respect for human life and you haven’t become cold and jaded enough NOT to react. SHAME and EMBARRASSMENT goes to liberals who support this type of cruel behavior. I mourn for that precious baby and know that many, many families would have cherished her all her life.

[I still care]

They could just have dropped off the baby at the nearest hospital.

[Psalm 144]

I like the way the MnD business owner is dealing with it. She is showing as much dignity and decency as the circumstances permit.

Edwards was right, for the wrong reasons, but there are indeed two Americas.

[DJ MacWoW]

If they’d kill a baby what shape are the other kids in?

[mikey_hates_everything]

At least legal abortions are available to prevent this very sort of thing. /s

Yeah, there’s a valid argument for abortion.

[OldNewYork]

The child was already born... adoption?

[jesseam]

Re: My G*d, what have we become.

GOD forgive us!!

[Man from Oz]

My sweetheart, Roxann is adopted and there isn’t a day that goes by that I thank our good Lord for her birth mother choosing life and her folks for adopting her...

[madprof98]

I don’t buy the notion that these are the values of backwoods redneck double-wide-trailer types. These are the values of Barack Obama’s America, the mores celebrated in the mainstream media. To these people, nearly a majority of our countrmen, innocent babies are OFFENSIVE because they take away valuable time for me, myself and I.

BTW, I’m betting these people get off with probation and community service.

[blackdog]

The Rodham boys(Hillary too) have a family vacation house on White Lake. A decade ago, Hughie was on a binge for several days involving the neighbor, his wife, and a few assorted locals cranked up on booze and cocaine. Hughie and the neighbor's wife snuck off to bump uglies and the husband shot the place up but missed Hughie and winged the wife. The state cops were involved and the whole thing just vanished like a fart in the wind. I believe the Rodham boys had to make an initial appearance over the matter, but that was about it.

The Poconos is kinda like the tribal regions of Pakistan in the more remote areas.