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A Jealous Father Beats, Burns, and Throws His 21-Month-Old Daughter Into a Creek
The father confesses to killing his 21-month-old daughter because he was envious of the attention she received after beating eye cancer.
Moments before killing his 21-month-old daughter Maddox, Ryan Lawrence pleaded to God for a sign. “God, if I’m not meant to kill her, make her stumble,” Lawrence reportedly told Detective Mark Rusin. He then struck her in the back of the head with a baseball bat. The toddler had battled and survived a rare kind of eye cancer. The father may have been envious of the attention her daughter was receiving.
Maddox went missing from her home in Upstate New York one weekend in February 2016, wearing a white shirt with brown puppies on it…