A man in lake Ariel has plead guilty to killing his newborn child by dropping a cinder block on her. Christopher Fitzpatrick and his girlfriend Jennifer A. Barrise are going on trial. Barrise is currently still incarcerated at the Wayne County Correctional Facilityon charges of criminal homicide and concealing the death of a child. Fitzpartick planned on killing their daughter. Barrise gave birth to the child in the car. Fitzpartick drove back to their home in Hideout community in Lake Twp. Barrise and his 11 year old sister had been dropped off. Fitzpatrick sister was also in the car when their daughter was born. The police said Fitzpatrick dropped a cinder block o his newborn daughter two time behind M n' D Lawn and Tree Care , where Fitzpatrick was employed. The newborn had died of massive head trauma. The death is being ruled as a homicide. Fitzpatrick had allegedly told his uncle that he buried his baby in the woods behind the Lawn Care business. Fitzpatrick led the police to where the infant was buried weeks later. The infant was buried beneath the cinder block. Patrick Zirpoli as state trooper found the infant's bones under the cinder block. The police believe that one motive behind killing the baby was because the young couple could not afford the expense of takig care of a newborn. The couple also had a one year old child together. Fitzpatrick no longer faces the death penalty under the plea arrangement. His is now receiving a mandatory life sentence in a state prison with the possiblitly of parole because he had plead guilty to first-degree murder.
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