NJ Father Who Drowned Toddler in Car Seat Gets Life Sentence

Arthur Morgan III was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for drowning his 2-year-old daughter, the New York Post reports. Suggested Reading ‘Sinners’ Releases in Black American Sign Language. Here’s What That Means A Burger King Employee Throws a Drink on a Child in Viral Video, and Black TikTok Goes Nuts The Best, Black…

Arthur Morgan III was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for drowning his 2-year-old daughter, the New York Post reports.

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The New Jersey father was found guilty of throwing the toddler into a creek while she was still strapped into her car seatโ€”with an irate judge telling him that he would have been placed on death row if the state practiced capital punishment, the news site notes. Morgan had weighed down little Tierra Morgan-Gloverโ€™s car seat with a tire jack in the November 2011 incident.

โ€œYouโ€™d be candidate No. 1 for its imposition," Judge Anthony Mellaci Jr. told Morgan regarding the death penalty, according to the Associated Press. "Your actions were horrific, unthinkable and appalling."

โ€œThis child was alive when she was placed in the water in pitch darkness, and had to suffer the unthinkable,โ€ Mellaci added. โ€œThis child suffered before she died.โ€

Morgan apologized to the mother, Imani Benton, saying that he was sorry for โ€œthe deterioration ofโ€ฆa beautiful friendshipโ€ฆthat blossomed into a daughter.โ€

โ€œFor anybody that was truly affected by this, I hope we can all heal from this situation, knowing Tierra is in a better place,โ€ he said, according to the AP.

โ€œAs a father, my job was to provide and protect,โ€ he added. โ€œAll my actions prior to this were to make sure Tierra was safe and Imani was comfortable.โ€

Read more at the New York Post and the Huffington Post.

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