GUILTY NJ - Austin Meli, admitted brutal attack on son; murdered baby girl days later, Wall, Mar 2019

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When Wall police were called to investigate the death of a 6-week-old girl on March 9, 2019, they did not initially discover what happened to her. But they did find home surveillance video that captured the infant's father brutalizing his 15-month-old son just days earlier, according to documents obtained by the Asbury Park Press.

Video from two surveillance cameras in the bedroom Austin Meli shared with the mother of his children depicted Meli on March 7 striking the older child in the head and knocking him down in his playpen, picking up the toddler by the neck and violently shaking him, slamming the child onto a bed and pressing on his neck, and then throwing him back into his playpen, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Wall Detective Christopher Lisewski.

Video from two surveillance cameras in the bedroom Austin Meli shared with the mother of his children depicted Meli on March 7 striking the older child in the head and knocking him down in his playpen, picking up the toddler by the neck and violently shaking him, slamming the child onto a bed and pressing on his neck, and then throwing him back into his playpen, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Wall Detective Christopher Lisewski.

Video from March 8 showed Meli picking up the boy by his ankles and violently swinging him around as the child screamed, the affidavit said. Meli then placed his hands over the toddler's mouth and nose, preventing him from breathing until he stopped screaming, the document said.

Meli was advised of the murder charge this morning at his first appearance in the case before Superior Court Judge Paul X. Escandon. He is scheduled to have a detention hearing later today.

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[wonderme12]

The link is blocked... but i'm almost thankful as this sounds tortuous and awful and heartbreaking

 

[Inthedetails]

The link is blocked... but i'm almost thankful as this sounds tortuous and awful and heartbreaking

I agree. I'm actually sorry I read that first post. Horrific. SO SORRY a little one had to endure that. I don't think I can handle knowing more.

jmo

 

[cass523]

FREEHOLD - A 23-year-old Wall man admitted to the mother of his 6-week-old daughter that he suffocated the newborn until she was dazed and then gave her a bottle, an assistant prosecutor said Wednesday.

He told the mother he became angry because the infant threw up all over him, so he suffocated her again until she passed out, Ellyn Rajfer, assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, said at a hearing before Superior Court Judge Paul X. Escandon.

Wall infant's murder: 'G.B. never woke up again'

 

[Yellow Rose]

When Wall police were called to investigate the death of a 6-week-old girl on March 9, 2019, they did not initially discover what happened to her. But they did find home surveillance video that captured the infant's father brutalizing his 15-month-old son just days earlier, according to documents obtained by the Asbury Park Press.

Video from two surveillance cameras in the bedroom Austin Meli shared with the mother of his children depicted Meli on March 7 striking the older child in the head and knocking him down in his playpen, picking up the toddler by the neck and violently shaking him, slamming the child onto a bed and pressing on his neck, and then throwing him back into his playpen, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Wall Detective Christopher Lisewski.

Video from two surveillance cameras in the bedroom Austin Meli shared with the mother of his children depicted Meli on March 7 striking the older child in the head and knocking him down in his playpen, picking up the toddler by the neck and violently shaking him, slamming the child onto a bed and pressing on his neck, and then throwing him back into his playpen, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Wall Detective Christopher Lisewski.

Video from March 8 showed Meli picking up the boy by his ankles and violently swinging him around as the child screamed, the affidavit said. Meli then placed his hands over the toddler's mouth and nose, preventing him from breathing until he stopped screaming, the document said.

Meli was advised of the murder charge this morning at his first appearance in the case before Superior Court Judge Paul X. Escandon. He is scheduled to have a detention hearing later today.

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Holy Christmas....I think I'm gonna puke

 

[Yellow Rose]

FREEHOLD - A 23-year-old Wall man admitted to the mother of his 6-week-old daughter that he suffocated the newborn until she was dazed and then gave her a bottle, an assistant prosecutor said Wednesday.

He told the mother he became angry because the infant threw up all over him, so he suffocated her again until she passed out, Ellyn Rajfer, assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, said at a hearing before Superior Court Judge Paul X. Escandon.

Wall infant's murder: 'G.B. never woke up again'

Yes because he suffocated her not once.....but twice! Oh dear Lord

 

[cass523]

The link is blocked... but i'm almost thankful as this sounds tortuous and awful and heartbreaking

Yes, I understand. It's the most unfathomable of crimes, parents killing their own child, children, entire families. So many in the news lately. Difficult to comprehend.

 

[LadyL]

those poor babies

 

[Chirurgi]

I just watch the video from his court arraignment. Zero remorse. What a real winner, let me tell ya. I hope the decent men in the pen eat him alive. Pure evil.

 

[cass523]

FREEHOLD - While a Wall man awaits trial in the murder of his 6-week-old daughter, he was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for violently abusing his toddler son, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said Monday.

Superior Court Judge Ellen Torregrossa-O’Connor imposed the prison term on Austin Meli, 23, who pleaded guilty Oct. 29 to aggravated assault the previous March on his son, who was then 15 months.

The charges stemmed from an investigation into the death of Meli’s newborn daughter on March 9, 2019. Investigators at that time uncovered video from a surveillance camera in the bedroom Meli shared with the mother of his children. The surveillance camera captured a series of violent acts by Meli against his toddler son that occurred in the days before his daughter’s death, authorities said.

The video first showed Meli on March 7, 2019, striking his older child in the head and knocking him down in his playpen, according to court documents. It then showed him picking up the toddler by the neck and violently shaking him, slamming the child onto a bed and pressing on his neck, before throwing him back into his playpen, the court documents said.

Video from March 8 showed Meli picking up the boy by his ankles and violently swinging him around as the child screamed, according to an affidavit by Wall police. Meli then placed his hands over the toddler's mouth and nose, preventing him from breathing until he stopped screaming, the document said.

Meli next is seen on the video picking up the toddler by the neck, choking him and swinging him around violently, the affidavit said. As the boy gasped for breath, Meli threw him on the bed and blew smoke from a vape pen in his face, it said.

Wall man, charged with newborn daughter's murder, goes to prison for abusing toddler son

 

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A Monmouth County grand jury on Friday returned an indictment against a 23-year-old Wall man, already imprisoned for abusing his young son, in the death of his 6-week-old daughter in 2019, authorities said.

The indictment charges Austin Meli with murder and endangering the welfare of a child, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said in a news release. Court documents allege Meli suffocated the girl to death in a fit of anger.

Meli's infant daughter, identified as G.B. in court documents, died March 9, 2019, after she went unresponsive while in the care of her father, according to the news release.

Meli admitted to the girl's mother in secretly recorded conversations that he had suffocated the infant until she was dazed, Assistant Prosecutor Ellyn Rajfer said at a court hearing last year.

He then gave the girl a bottle and, when she threw up on him, he admitted that he grew angry and suffocated her until she passed out. The girl never woke up, the prosecutor alleged.

Wall police were called to the home and the baby was rushed to Ocean Medical Center in Brick, where she was pronounced dead.

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[SBops]

I bet that he is one of those good Christian men.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Wall man sentenced to 30 years for smothering infant daughter

Austin Meli, 26, is required to serve 85% of his sentence before being eligible for parole for the killing of his six-week-old daughter.

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