A stillborn baby was found abandoned in the bathroom of a Texas Walmart, and the pregnant teenager’s father was arrested on a series of depraved charges.
Father of teen arrested after deceased baby found
According to authorities, a 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by her father, Jerry Lee Martinez, 45, and fell pregnant with his child.
Martinez was taking his daughter to get an abortion in Mexico, when she went into labor and delivered a stillborn child in a Walmart bathroom in Kingsville, Texas.
Initially when he found out about the pregnancy, Martinez reportedly punched his daughter in the stomach.
The attack took place after the suspect had sexually assaulted the teen multiple times in the last two years.
After the teen delivered a stillborn baby, they abandoned it in the trash, where the child’s body was found by a Walmart employee.
Walmart workers tried to save baby found in trash
Walmart employees called Kingsville police at around 10:30 p.m. on July 14.
The staffers who found the child attempted to perform CPR, before first responders arrived.
The baby was taken to a local hospital, where doctors confirmed it did not survive.
Surveillance footage showed the pregnant teenager heading into the bathroom and exiting 40 minutes later. She then went to the parking lot and got into a vehicle.
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The baby wasn’t discovered until 30 minutes later by employees.
Police were able to locate Martinez driving with his daughter and pulled the vehicle over.
The suspect was taken into custody, and the teenager was reportedly brought to a “secure location.”
Martinez was charged with charged with abandoning or endangering a child with criminal negligence along with tampering with a witness and tampering with physical evidence.
His charges have recently been updated to includes sexual assault of a child.
The arrest affidavit reported that the daughter told police that her father began “touching her inappropriately” two years ago.
According to reports, Martinez’s stepfather, 60-year-old Mario Duran, is also facing sexual assault charges stemming from the case, which the police have yet to release details about.
“We extend our deepest condolences to all affected by this tragic event,” police wrote in a statement about the incident.
Martinez remains in the Kleberg County Jail on a $1.3 million bond. Duran is cooling his heels in San Patricio County Jail on $300,000 bond.
Canadian man arrested for daughter’s death
Elsewhere, police took a Canadian man into custody after his 9-year-old daughter’s body was discovered in a pond in upstate New York.
Luciano Frattolin, 45, initially told police that his daughter had been abducted on Saturday night from Lake George.
The pair, who reside in Montreal, were on a U.S. vacation since July 11, that included stops in Connecticut, New York City and Lake George.
They were supposed to be headed back to Canada the next day, so Melina could reunite with her mother, who had custody, but had allowed Frattolin to take her on vacation.
Melina was last seen alive at a restaurant in Saratoga Springs around 5:30 p.m. Saturday with her father, according to New York State Police Capt. Robert McConnell.
Police said she spoke on the phone to her mother a final time before her death and “did not indicate she was under any duress.”
An Amber Alert went into affect on Sunday, about four hours after she was reported missing to police.
State forest rangers discovered Melina’s body in a pond near Ticonderoga, which was around 30 miles from where her father reported her missing.
“Sometime after Melina’s phone call with her mother and before Frattolin’s 911 call, he allegedly murdered Melina and left her body in a remote area where she was later discovered by law enforcement,” McConnell said.
The Amber alert was cancelled later that afternoon after her body was found in the water. Her cause of death is still pending.
Frattolin immediately became a suspect after police poked holes in his story.
McConnell said that the suspect initially reported that he pulled over at an exit in Lake George to relieve himself.
At first, he told police that he went into the woods to urinate and returned to find that Melina had disappeared from the vehicle.
The then told police that he saw a “suspicious white van” fleeing the scene, but the details eventually changed.
“During a subsequent interview, he then reports two unknown males forced her into a white van,” McConnell explained. “That lead was thoroughly investigated and disproven.”
Frattolin is charged with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.
