Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Baby Aidan Andrews Dad Sentenced

KENT, Wash. -- An 18-year-old dad who pleaded guilty to killing his own baby son was sentenced to more than ten years in prison on Friday. Baby Aiden was just 10 weeks old when he died from shaken baby syndrome. The baby fell into trouble after his mother left him with his own father, Christopher Temple, while she went to work. Temple later told police that Aiden's fussiness fueled his frustration and anger, and eventually caused him to shake the baby. Temple eventually alerted the baby's mother, Kendra Beach. Work was all normal until about 3:40 when I got your phone call. You told me you thought the baby was dead," Beach said to Temple in court on Friday. Paramedics rushed Aiden to the hospital. "I watched for four days as he lay on his quilt, dying in the pediatric intensive care unit," said Wanda Andrews, the baby's great-grandmother. Charged with his son's death, Temple eventually pleaded guilty to second degree murder. "I would give anything to have it back. I would give my own life to have him back, anything in this world," he said. "And I just want everyone to know that I did not do this intentionally and I am very sorry." But Rick Garman, the baby's grandfather, said words are not good enough. "Nobody, nobody could ever convince me it was a mistake. A mistake is when you forget to take the garbage out, when you forget to turn a light out when you leave a room, not when you kill another human being," he said. Garman said the family will never stop suffering from ...

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