Police Say Dad Knocked Child Unconscious
POSTED: 8:54 pm EST February 8, 2007
PITTSBURGH -- A man angry his toddler daughter wouldn't go to bed knocked her unconscious and left her to die outside in single-digit temperatures, police said.
The frozen body of Nyia Miangel Page, who was about to turn 2, was found Sunday at an abandoned playground about a 10-minute walk from the family's home. Tiny footprints in the snow suggest she had gotten up and wandered around before she died, police said.
Her father, William Lorenzo Page, 23, of Braddock, was arrested Wednesday on charges of criminal homicide, kidnapping, false reports and simple assault. He has been in custody since Sunday, when he was charged with sexually abusing another child shortly before Nyia died.
Page, who did not have an attorney at his arraignment Thursday morning, was jailed without bond.
Page told police he woke up early Saturday and found the girl awake and playing near a mirror in the hallway, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday night. He said he got mad when the girl wouldn't go back to bed so he hit her so hard she hit her head and was unconscious, the complaint said.
Police said Page told them he took the girl outside wrapped in a blanket and left her, still breathing, beside railroad tracks near a bridge.
Police said a T-shirt, a pair of women's underwear and a Pittsburgh Steelers "Terrible Towel," all found in Page's basement, appeared to have been stained with dried blood.
An autopsy determined Nyia died of hypothermia, but the Allegheny County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide because investigators said it was unreasonable to assume the child had made it alone to the playground, which is on a wooded knoll. The toddler would have had to have climbed 17 snowy steps to get there.
Authorities could only guess how long Nyia, wearing only a sweater and a diaper, could have survived in temperatures that hovered around 2 degrees Saturday morning.
"Given her size, she would have been rendered incapacitated very quickly," Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl E. Williams said Thursday. "She'd been out so long, when we found her she was frozen."
A witness saw Page enter his house Saturday morning from the direction where his daughter was found, police said. He was back out on the street about an hour later, saying he was looking for the girl and telling the witness, "Somebody took my daughter," according to a criminal complaint.
Nyia's mother told police she last saw the girl after Nyia tried to crawl into bed with her parents about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. The mother told police she put the youngster back into her own bed in an upstairs room.
Police, emergency crews and bloodhounds searched in 20-degree temperatures for most of two days before finding the little girl's body.
The sexual abuse charge against Page came as police investigated Nyia's disappearance.
Police said another child in the house told investigators that sometime overnight Friday, Page entered a bedroom, covered the child's mouth with one hand and touched the child's genitals with the other. The child said Page then left the room, followed by Nyia, police said.
Source-- Associated Press
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And people wonder why I am as vocal as I am.
Ok, I am going to make no bones about this one. I am honestly pissed off! I mean, what in H E double hockey sticks was this dumb ass thinking? No! Better question than that; who in the world told this bastard that he was qualified to be a father? I guess any snot nosed punk who can slang a johnson can be a father. He obviously is not a real man, so he can not be classified as a dad.
How in the world are you going to knock your not even two year old daughter out, and then take her to a park in single degree weather wearing only a diaper and sweater, and leave her there to die? This idiot must have been drunk, high or both. The same must be true of the mother, because she is acting as if she had no idea of what was going on. Shoot, I remember when I was a child. All I had to do was yawn oddly and my mother was there, awaken from a dead sleep, to see if I was OK. Someone please explain how it is a child is hit so hard that she is knocked out, and the mother - who is supposed to have MSP (Maternal Sensory Perception) - does not sense something is not right. Ok, let me get off of her, it is him that I am after in this post.
What should be done to this good for nothing bastard? I think a warm jail cell would be too good for him. Some of you may call me cruel, but I personally feel we should water him down and leave is but outside in single degree temperatures. Are stockades considered illegal in America? If that is too cruel, then go ahead and put him behind bars. Just have the guard accidentally forget to lock his cell at night, or have the guard step away while he is in the shower or something like that.
Yes, I realize I am extremely cruel at times, but you must understand, that is a child, a baby, not even two years old. If you ask me, nothing is too bad for her dad. Maybe we ought to chain him to a tree close to a fire ant bed in underwear coated with sugar water. Ok, I am stepping off of my box for now. Just understand that in my eyes, there is nothing worst than someone who would kill a child, especially if that child is his own.
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