Dad to go to trial in death of 20-day-old daughter (Bolivar, Pennsylvania)

Dad CLAYTON DANIEL MIBRODA is charged with criminal homicide. If you were to take this guy's story seriously, he's the clumsiest creature east of the Mississippi....

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/westmoreland/s_783236.html


West Bolivar father to go on trial in death of newborn

By Jewels Phraner, LIGONIER ECHO
Friday, February 24, 2012

A Bolivar man accused of killing his 20-day-old daughter will face trial for criminal homicide, a district judge ruled Thursday.

Clayton Daniel Mibroda, 25, of West Bolivar has pleaded not guilty in the death of baby Natalie.

Indiana County Coroner Michael Baker testified that the infant died of blunt-force trauma to the head and chest and that "the child would have been immediately symptomatic upon infliction of those injuries."

State police Trooper Timothy Lipniskis testified that Mibroda told police that he was caring for Natalie at her time of death.

Lipniskis testified that Mibroda gave three different accounts of what happened on Dec. 29, when Natalie was taken to the Indiana Regional Medical Center by ambulance and pronounced dead.

Lipniskis said that after he described for Mibroda the extent of Natalie's injuries, Mibroda said that the baby was crying and woke him up. Mibroda said he picked the child out of her infant seat, jogged down the hall to a back bedroom to get her formula, tripped over a bucket, dropped the baby, accidentally kicked her in the head and then fell on top of her, the trooper testified.

Lipniskis said the baby's mother, Kayla Jo Lichtenfels, was at a doctor's appointment when this occurred.

After the hearing, Mibroda's mother, Vicki Fetterman, said her son's story doesn't make sense and she believes he's taking responsibility for a crime he didn't commit.

Lichtenfels' and Mibroda's 1-year-old son has been in Fetterman's custody since Mibroda's arrest, she said.

"Not all the facts came out during the hearing," Fetterman said. "And we don't know all the facts either. I love my son, and I would still love him whether he was guilty or not. It would break my heart, but I would still love him. But we just want the truth at this point. There's too many things that don't add up."

Baker testified that the baby had some older injuries, including a tear beneath her tongue and bruises, which were not life-threatening.

Mibroda is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison without bail.