Babysitting boyfriend, father of 6, pleads guilty in death of 3-year-old girl (Grand Junction, Colorado)

CHARLES MCEACHERN was babysitting his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter while Mom was working (don't any of these guys have jobs??). Sometime between naptime and cookies, he managed to inflict a blunt force trauma to the little girl's head and killed her. The babysitting boyfriend was also the father of 6--wonder if he was any better with his "own" kids. Somehow I doubt it. I think they were just lucky that Dad had a girlfriend someplace else, so he wasn't available for babysitting duties.

http://www.kdvr.com/news/sns-ap-co--olddeath,0,4341257.story

Father of 6 pleads guilty to abuse in death of girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter
By Associated Press
11:50 AM MDT, September 5, 2009

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A father of six children pleaded guilty to a charge in the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter.

Thirty-four-year-old Charles McEachern pleaded guilty Friday to child abuse resulting in death. He faces up to 32 years in prison at sentencing Nov. 16.

Authorities say McEachern was baby-sitting Miranda Baca in June 2006 while her mother, McEachern's girlfriend at the time, was at work. Miranda was later taken to a hospital and died that day.

An autopsy indicated she died from blunt force trauma to the head. McEachern was arrested in Arvada, more than a year after Miranda's death.