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Dad Who Bit Baby Pleads Guilty To Her Murder

By totalfamilylife.com
Family & Parenting child murderers
SEP 22, 2014 LISTEN
child murderers

By Emma Birchley, East of England Correspondent
A father who shook and beat his baby daughter to death has admitted the murder during his trial at the Old Bailey.

Lithuanian Aurimas Medvedevas, 23, had previously denied killing nine-week-old Aukse on September 5 last year. The child's mother, Dzesika Urbikaite, had just had her first day back at work after maternity leave when she returned to their  home on Clifton Avenue, Peterborough, to find her baby dead in a cot. Medvedevas initially claimed she had accidentally fallen out of bed. Supt Jon Hutchinson, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: “This was a shocking, brutal crime in which a baby girl who was only nine weeks old was murdered by a person who should have been looking after her. “He used such violence that the post-mortem examination concluded her injuries were consistent with having been in a car crash or dropped from a one-storey building. “He then cruelly failed to seek the medical assistance that may well have saved her life.” The attack took place on Clifton Avenue in Peterborough

As well as cuts and bruises, the post mortem revealed that Aukse had two bite marks on her head. She had suffered significant internal injuries including a deep cut to the liver, five rib fractures, and bleeding on the brain and eyes indicating that she had been shaken. An examination of one of the bite marks showed it matched the defendant's teeth imprint, the court heard. Medvedevas changed his plea to guilty two days into the trial. Judge Timothy Pontius told the jury that they had heard his “clear and voluntary confession of guilt”. He told them: “This is a distressing case and a tragic one. You are relieved of the burden of listening to that evidence.” Medvedevas is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey in Central London on Friday September 26.

 
source: http://news.sky.com

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