Mans Kills Newborn for Interrupting His Game
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Rene Edward Barrios, 26, of Arizona, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Thursday after causing the death of an 18-day-old child. Barrios was living with the mother of the child, who was running errands at the time of the incident. When the mother left, the child was asleep and Barrios was playing video games in another room. At some point, the child awoke and began crying. In an effort to silence the child, Barrios entered the bedroom, shook the child, and struck it on the head before returning to his game. After finishing his game, he returned to the room and found the child immobile on the bed and blue in color. Barrios immediately called 911. Unfortunately, the child was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Barrios’s attorney stated that the baby had been crying for hours and Barrios’s actions were out of frustration. He went on to say that Barrios knew that he should not have shaken the child, but he acted irrationally. Barrios faces between ten and one-half and twenty-one years in prison. While the game was described as “assault-like,” it has not yet been implicated as a reason for Barrios’s agitated state. However, as others have pointed out, a good defense attorney will blame everything in sight.
