Brattleboro father pleads not guilty to second-degree murder charge in death of infant
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BRATTLEBORO - James W. Petrin pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Windham District Court to a charge of second degree murder in the death of her 8 week old daughter, Trisha Joy Petrin, during the summer. Petrin, 21, Brattleboro, has been charged by second-degree murder Tuesday, capping a six-month investigation of the child death. It was signed on $ 50,000 cash bail. If she was entitled to bail, if he was released on condition that he report twice daily to Brattleboro Police Department present a alcosensor test, it can not leave without permission from Windham County and monitored 24 hours Curfew, unless Reporting to the police, at work or in a meeting with his lawyer. Other conditions, do not drink that Petrin, buy or alcohol, it has no contact with the mother Trisha, Brianne Johnston, and other witnesses, and he has no contact with a child under the age of 16. On August 29, police were called to an apartment Brattleboro where it has not found Trisha breathe. She was revived and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital before being transferred Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, where she died on September 2, after Brattleboro Police Detective Michael Carrier. An autopsy of New Hampshire State Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Thomas concluded that the girl died of blunt force trauma to the head and decided to murder. Petrin, who was the only one to maintain their stated at the outset, it was in their diet she began to suffocate, then vomited and tends to lag behind. Andrew said, was unlikely, given that the baby’s injuries. “Given the magnitude of these violations, the products of a spontaneous history goulûment episode followed by attempts at resuscitation of babies are unplausibel everything,” he said, according to a sworn statement filed additional Carrier. On Tuesday that the police is questioned, Petrin, he became frustrated when the child is no more stop crying, even after fed, it has changed, and after the first sworn statement filed by Carrier. “I have my expense, and must be shaken,” he said at one location, according to the affidavit. “I lost my temper, I am not sure I would have been shaken, I do not know,” he said, after Carrier. Later, he acknowledges, shaking twice-and-Drop on her bed after Carrier. “In this case, we find that the burden of Mr. Petrin resulted in the death of his daughter with a mutwilligen disregard of the likelihood that his behaviour would probably lead to death or grievous bodily harm,” said Windham County Assistant State’s Attorney Ellen Kryger. Carrier would not be on the results of the autopsy, or the delay between the child and the death of Petrin, were arrested. “There is no statute of limitations. It is only a matter of the march, which will lead the investigation,” he said. |