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I noticed in rosie_lee's link he had another daughter die in 2013. They are reopening that case.
http://www.cleveland.com/medina/index.ssf/2016/02/trial_date_set_for_medina_man_1.html
"Investigators reopened the 2013 death of Warfel's daughter Erin, who was 5 months old when she died of what the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner deemed a "sudden unexplained infant death."
Warfel is currently charged with tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; gross abuse of a corpse, a fifth-degree felony; three misdemeanor counts of endangering children; and two counts of possession of cocaine, a fifth-degree felony.
The child endangering counts involve incidents when Warfel allegedly left his 7-year-old daughter alone on two occasions. Once, the girl left the apartment and was walking around crying the evening of June 18, the day before her sister died. She was found by neighbors, who stayed with her nearly an hour before Eric Warfel could be found. One neighbor testified at trial...
Warfel told them he had started using cocaine earlier that year after regaining custody of his two children and paid for it using money his parents gave him every month.
Warfel told police he found his daughter dead early June 19 and tried to revive her. When that failed, he placed a crucifix in her crib and closed off the room, only going back in one more time. Lynn said Warfel said he and his living daughter would stay in motels when he had the money due to the smell of Ember’s decomposing corpse...
Recent court documents state a sample of Ember Warfel’s hair tested positive for cocaine and additional testing is being conducted to see when she presumably ingested the drug.
A judge, not a jury, is deciding Warfel's guilt or innocence...
Warfel's attorney contend Ember was born with severe medical problems.
Defense attorney Michael O'Shea said Warfel's failure to report her death is not enough evidence to support charges of abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.
"You have to actively violate [those statutes]," O'Shea said. "You can't passively do it. There's a plethora of case law out there that says so."
But prosecutors said Warfel's actions violated state law. The prosecutors also said they believe Warfel failed to report the death because he wanted to avoid an investigation.
"It's the state's contention that the defendant did not call or notify anyone of the death because he didn't want an autopsy," Medina County Prosecutor Dean Holman said. "He didn't want an investigation."
The Medina man accused of leaving his 1-year-old daughter's corpse in a crib for more than a month has been found guilty of gross abuse of a corpse and other criminal charges...
Warfel's sentencing is scheduled July 7. He faces up to six and a half years in prison, according to Ohio sentencing guidelines.
A Medina County judge ordered a 3 year prison sentence for Eric Warfel — a 34-year-old Medina man convicted of leaving the body of his 20-month-old daughter in her crib for more than a month after her death.
Warfel was sentenced on one count of tampering with evidence, a third degree felony, and two counts of cocaine possession, both fifth degree felonies. During sentencing, the tampering with evidence charge was merged with a fifth degree felony, gross abuse of a corpse.
He also received time on three counts of endangering children, all first degree misdemeanors.
The sentence is less than the amount suggested by Medina County Prosecutor Dean Holman, who asked the judge for a 5 year sentence Friday morning. Warfel could have faced up to six years in prison on the charges.