Friday, October 07, 2005
Daddy Dearest ... you deserve so much worse...
This man ... animal ... I just do not understand. Is it the spoiled lifestyle we lead these days?
- A Kensington man pleaded guilty yesterday to suffocating his 9-month-old son and, eight months later, strangling his 4-year-old daughter.
In exchange for his guilty pleas, 24-year-old Steven Walczak is to be sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus 20 to 40 years, ...
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On Dec. 14, Walczak confessed to killing Rebecca.
"It wasn't an accident. I intentionally killed my daughter," Walczak told detectives, according to his signed statement.
Walczak told investigators that the child was poorly behaved after visiting her mother, and that he did not want the girl to see her mother again.
"I gave her a kiss on the forehead as I was tucking her in. Without realizing it, my hands were around her neck, with the cover, the cover was underneath my hands. Becky started panting, gasping for air, and the next thing I know she stopped breathing," Walczak said.
Seven hours later, he gave another signed statement in which he admitted killing Ryan after returning home, exhausted, from his job at Thriftway on Aramingo Avenue.
"I was beyond tired. I kept telling Ryan, 'Go to sleep. Go to sleep.'... I grabbed him. I put my one hand over his mouth and my other hand behind his head. I shook him and then I slammed him on the bed. Then I got on top of him and kept my one hand over his mouth. I fell asleep that way," Walczak said.