Editor’s note: The following article contains disturbing details cited in a criminal complaint regarding an ongoing investigation.
An illegal migrant is accused of killing his own 2-month-old daughter because he didn’t believe she was his child, Nassau County Detective Lieutenant Scott Skrynecki told the New York Post.
Marlon Rabanales-Pretzantzin, 20, of Guatemala, was charged with murder in relation to the March 7 killing of Liseyda Rabanales-Barrios inside his Inwood home. Rabanales-Pretzantzin, who illegally crossed the Mexico-El Paso border into the U.S. in 2022, told police that although he is listed as the father on the birth certificate, he suspects that he is not the father so he lost affection for the baby and felt some kind of animosity,” according to Skrynecki.
The suspect allegedly slapped the infant in the face, punched her in the stomach and violently shook her before tossing her on a bed and pressing his fist into her chest during the incident on the morning of March 7, a criminal complaint states. Responding officers said they received a 911 call about the baby “rolling off the bed,” however, an autopsy conducted by a medical examiner later ruled Liseyda’s death as a homicide, which led to Rabanales-Pretzantzin being questioned by police.
The suspect was previously detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers upon entering the country in 2022, but was released before traveling to Virginia and later Nassau County, according to Skrynecki. Rabanales-Pretzantzin is currently being held without bail and was scheduled for arraignment in Nassau County Court on Thursday (March 13).
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