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TexasTowelie

(116,798 posts)
Wed May 31, 2017, 04:19 PM May 2017

Man who threw baby off bridge gets 70 years in prison

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut man who killed his 7-month-old son when he threw the boy off a 90-foot-high bridge, then survived the plunge himself, was sentenced to 70 years in prison Wednesday.

A judge imposed the maximum prison time on Tony Moreno, 23, who was convicted by a jury in February of murder and risk of injury to a minor.

"The utter depravity of the crime, a father killing his infant son, speaks for itself," Middletown Superior Court Judge Elpedio Vitale said.

Police said the 23-year-old Moreno threw his son, Aaden, off the Arrigoni Bridge over the Connecticut River in Middletown in July 2015. He then jumped off and was seriously wounded, but survived. He testified during his trial that he accidentally dropped the boy and did not intend to harm him, despite having confessed to police that he threw the baby off the bridge.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20170531_ap_fa8ac743f9a54932a73256b13ccd6a3a.html

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Man who threw baby off bridge gets 70 years in prison (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2017 OP
Good. The poor mother, grandparents & family of the child irisblue May 2017 #1
He sounds nice... whathehell May 2017 #2

whathehell

(29,798 posts)
2. He sounds nice...
Wed May 31, 2017, 04:27 PM
May 2017
Kind is like the divorced dad who pushed his 4 year old daughter off a cliff so be wouldn't have to pay child support anymore.
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