Dad admits he shook SLEEPING baby for "less than 5 minutes," but pleads not guilty to murder anyway (Norristown, Pennsylvania)

Dastardly readers should know by now that I don't have a lot of patience with "frustrated" babysitting dads who maim or kill the infants in their care because the babies were crying.

But dad KHALIL BROWN is in a class by himself. A freaking grade-A psychopath who wasn't provoked in any way, shape, or form. Daddy was alone in the house when he picked up his SLEEPING 10-week-old daughter infant daughter and shook her, oh, "less than five minutes." But it was enough shaking to kill her: "She just went dead and stopped moving." So he just cooly and deliberately targeted this baby for elimination? I don't know what to say. Horrifying doesn't begin to cover it.

But Daddy's pleading not guilty despite the confession anyway.

http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2010/04/13/news/doc4bc4023696a32217626679.txt

Father pleads not guilty in shaken baby case
Published: Tuesday, April 13, 2010

By KEITH PHUCAS
Times Herald Staff

COURTHOUSE — A 20-year-old father accused of shaking his 10-week-old daughter, who later died of traumatic brain injuries, pleaded not guilty in Montgomery County court.

Khalil Brown, 20, who is being held in Montgomery County Correctional Facility without bail, appeared before Judge Joseph A. Smyth Jr. at a Monday morning arraignment.

Brown’s defense attorney asked the judge to set bail, apparently to allow him more “mobility” in prison; however, Smyth wanted to talk to prison officials before making a decision.

The victim, Aniyah Brown, sustained severe injuries after being shaken Jan. 28 in her Plymouth Meeting home. She died days later at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she had been on life support.

After receiving a call about an unconscious baby in January, Plymouth Township police went to the Chestnut Street residence around 9:41 a.m., and reportedly found the infant, who wasn’t breathing, bleeding from the nose in a second-floor bedroom.

Brown, who identified himself as the girl’s father, told officers he had gone upstairs to check on the child that morning and noticed she wasn’t breathing. He then called 911. The baby was taken to Montgomery Hospital in Norristown and later transported to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for advanced medical care.

The defendant allegedly admitted to investigators days after the child was injured, that he picked her up while she slept in an upstairs bedroom and shook her, according to court papers.

The Philadelphia man, who had been staying at the Plymouth Township home of his girlfriend’s mother, gave no explanation for the incident, according to Montgomery County First District Attorney Kevin Steele.

On Feb. 2, Children’s Hospital’s Dr. Heather McKeag told detectives the baby had suffered a severe brain injury and multiple hemorrhages in both eyes. A day later, Dr. Margaret Priestly pronounced the girl dead. She had been kept alive to enable organ donations but was removed from life-support equipment.

Dr. Sam Gulino, a forensic pathologist, performed an autopsy on the baby and determined she died from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Also Feb. 2, during a second interview with Plymouth police Detective Jeffrey McGee and county Detective Mark Minzola, Brown reportedly admitted picking the baby up from the bed she was sleeping on and shaking her for “less than five minutes,” according to the criminal complaint.

He and the baby were the only people in the house at the time, according to authorities. After allegedly shaking the girl, Brown reportedly said, “she just went dead and stopped moving.”

In February, he was charged with third-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of children. Assistant District Attorneys Christopher Parisi and Jordan Friter are prosecuting the case.

On Monday, Brown’s public defender, Louise M. Petrillo, told the Smyth her client had no prior criminal history. At the time of his arrest, he worked full time at a Wal-Mart store.

Petrillo asked and was granted permission to get a pair of tennis shoes to Brown for him to wear in prison.

“He only has a pair of slippers,” she said.

A trial date has not yet been scheduled.