Posted on 03/20/2019 11:14:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Demented dad offers gruesome confession in death of five-week-old baby boy: “I got angry and threw Aiden to the ground face-first"
A demented Bronx dad, just 38 days after holding his newborn son for the first time, hurled the infant face-first into their apartment floor in a fatal fit of frustration, authorities said Wednesday.
Court papers detailed the heartbreaking final moments of tiny Aiden Rodriguez’s painfully brief life once his dad Christian returned home with the boy shortly after 10 p.m. on Monday night. The father, who pleaded guilty to injuring his 3-month daughter in 2015, was expected to face homicide charges after providing cops with a blow by blow account of the killing.
The elder Rodriguez, who flashed a creepy smile Tuesday as he left the 40th Precinct, had earlier told cops how he flew into a rage after he "accidentally bashed Aiden’s head against the door” while trying to fold up the child’s stroller.
The five-week-old child, wrapped in a hospital blanket brought home after his Feb. 9 birth, “wouldn’t stop crying,” his father told police. “I got angry and threw Aiden to the floor face-first. I got frustrated and threw him to the ground.”
The innocent victim hit the floor with such force that he suffered multiple skull fractures, with his brain actually shifting 3mm inside his head. Doctors reported bruising and bone fractures as well. Little Aiden ate his last meal just 30 minutes before his father’s fatal explosion of anger, according to court papers.
Earlier, the accused killer told cops, the baby was acting “fussy” at his great-grandmother’s house just a few buildings away from their Mott Haven home. The boy feel asleep in his stroller, with Rodriguez accidentally banging the boy’s head into the door while trying to get the stroller inside their apartment bedroom.
“I heard a pop,” the accused killer recounted. “I calmed the baby down and then I called his mother ... to let her know that the baby hit his head.”
Within seconds, Rodriguez confessed, he was flinging the child to his death against the apartment floor. Christian Rodriguez, pictured in a Facebook post on Feb. 11, 2019, was arrested in the Bronx on Wednesday and charged with assault of Aiden Rodriguez, his 1-month-old son, who died of his injuries. Christian Rodriguez, pictured in a Facebook post on Feb. 11, 2019, was arrested in the Bronx on Wednesday and charged with assault of Aiden Rodriguez, his 1-month-old son, who died of his injuries. (Facebook)
A sullen Rodriguez, 24, stood quietly in Bronx Criminal Court as prosecutors said they planned to update the charges against him. The defendant was originally charged with assault and reckless assault on his doomed son.
Rodriguez “stands before you having admitted to throwing his 38-day-old son to the ground,” said Assistant District Attorney Astrid Borgstedt during the court session.
The defendant, wearing stone-washed jeans along with blue and green zip-up sweaters, was jailed on $250,000 bail. The dead child’s 5-year-old brother was removed from their home to live with her maternal grandmother, sources told the Daily News.
In the prior abuse incident, Rodriguez told cops a similar story about what happened to his daughter: “I was holding the baby and I was getting frustrated and I dropped her.”
According to court papers, police were summoned to an unidentified Bronx hospital to find the little girl with bruising around her face and nose. Both incidents occurred inside the same Bronx apartment. Rodriguez pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in the 2015 abuse case, authorities said.
The suspect’s Facebook page presented the image of a doting dad, with photos of Rodriguez rubbing his pregnant wife’s stomach followed by two pictures of the adorable little Aiden — one in his beaming dad’s arms. Mother of Aiden Rodriguez, Damaris Vega, is pictured in tears outside the 40th Precinct in the Bronx on Tuesday. Mother of Aiden Rodriguez, Damaris Vega, is pictured in tears outside the 40th Precinct in the Bronx on Tuesday. (Esha Ray/New York Daily News)
The infant arrived at Lincoln Hospital “without a pulse and not breathing” on Monday night, according to court documents. Both parents were brought into the Bronx precinct, where the mother was turned loose around noon and the father held for additional questioning.
Last year, a drug-added Bronx mom was arrested for repeatedly slamming her 5-month-old son’s head against the wall of their apartment. Little Raymond Porfil suffered similar head injuries to those that killed Aiden, officials said.
The city Administration for Children’s Services reported no prior contact with the Rodriguez and his family, although an investigation was now underway.
Late Wednesday, the city’s Medical Examiner confirmed Aiden’s death as a homicide and said the cause of death was “abusive head trauma.”
Aiden’s great-grandmother, Maritiza Quinones, 58, who lives in the Bronx not far from the infant’s home, told The News late on Wednesday, "We just can’t believe it. "
“Aiden was a happy, smiling baby," she said. "He was just starting to babble. It’s too sad. We have broken hearts.”
She said her granddaughter, Damaris, is “not doing well. All she does is cry. She can’t speak. She just breaks down and cries.”
At times succumbing to emotion, Quinones said of Rodriguez, “I hope he gets at least 100 years. He murdered the baby, an innocent baby. We welcomed him into our family and he killed Aiden."
Poor little one.
Great-grandmother, aged 58.
If only he’d done it 38 days earlier, after “consulting with the doctor” in the delivery room, it might have been a legal “abortion,” according to the sick democrats.
There is a picture of the perp in the article.
If the great-grandmother is only 57 years old - babies having babies.
The sister is crying all the time. She had been abused as a baby also. I have to question whether she has brain damage.
Article doesn’t say, but I wonder if the POS baby killer is an illegal from south of the thing laughably called our border, or one of Puerto Rico’s finest. At the very least, he is one of the Dem’s finest.
How different than late term abortion?
Such a cute phrase to describe Aztec human sacrifice.
Do any of us know of a great grandmother who is 58 years old? Im sure this is a family of generational dependence
Unfortunately, this has happened for centuries. Screaming babies is something some people cannot handle.
Earplugs and baseball on TV got me through colic. I did put her down a couple of times when it got to be too much. And I traded off with my wife at 2 AM.
And a “great grandmother” at 58? Yikes!
This is the inevitable result of the abortion on demand culture that is rampant in the US. That culture devalues human life and thus causes people to devalue human life as a whole.
Sickening culture we have here. It reminded me of the Roman empire with its various levels of citizen or slave or the cast system in India.
JoMa
Put him in a stock and offer swings for $20: “Batter up!”
These fools never heard of a rocking chair?
Calms down both parent & child.
Some people, usually men in my experience, can’t stand to hear a baby cry.
It isn't. This creep will spend a very long time in prison, well deserved.
Abortionists walk free.
The murder of a 5 week post birth baby is a horrible crime, leading to a murder trial and many column-inches of newsprint.
3000 abortions committed the same day are just a "women's health" statistic.
First, he dropped the other child on the floor in 2015.
THEN THE MOTHER STAYED WITH HIM??????
Yes, the Great-grandmother being only 58 jumped out at me, too.
What a mess. What an unbelievable mess.
And New York’s CPS doesn’t have any record from the first ‘accidental dropping’ of the older child?1?
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