A Florida man was arrested in the 2021 choking death of his infant daughter after investigators concluded he put a baby wipe in her mouth, the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.
Joseph Napier, 30, was arrested Friday on a manslaughter charge, the sheriff’s office said.
Napier is accused of killing the infant “by shoving the baby wipe down her throat,” sheriff’s Det. Robert Sunkel said at a news conference.
Circumstantial evidence is good enough for a conviction.
The circumstantial evidence here is that:
Some kind of expert, maybe an ENT or physiatrist of the head and neck will testify as to the parastalitic abilities of an infant. That testimony, it sounds like, is going to prove a baby can’t swallow a wipe.
Phone and 911 evidence will show he waited to call 9/11.
That’s pretty damning, to a jury.