An upstate New York dad fatally stabbed his pregnant spouse after which tried to kill his two younger daughters — simply because he was offended he wasn’t going to have a son, in line with the slain lady’s father.
Drew Garnier, 33, admitted to repeatedly stabbing his five-months-pregnant spouse, Samantha Garnier, 29, and their kids, Izzie, 6, and Adelina, 9, within the massacre on the household’s house in Masonville on Sept. 4 final 12 months, in line with the Delaware County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
His spouse and their unborn youngster each died within the assault, which was simply weeks earlier than the mother was to show 30. The younger women are recovering from “important accidents,” the DA mentioned.
Garnier killed in anger that his spouse was once more pregnant with a woman, Samantha’s grieving father, Gregory Vernagallo, mentioned in a sufferer impression assertion at sentencing.
“He wished a boy,” Vernagallo advised the courtroom.
Garnier pleaded responsible final month to first-degree manslaughter and two counts of first-degree assault — each class B violent felonies.
He was sentenced final week to 30 years in jail — with 15 years of post-release supervision — as a part of the plea deal geared toward defending the surviving daughters from the trauma of a trial.
“We have been capable of safe this conviction with out forcing two younger kids to testify concerning the horrific issues they witnessed,” District Lawyer Shawn Smith mentioned of the sentence being lighter than he wished.
The killer dad has additionally been forbidden from seeing his daughters till 2056 — the utmost allowed — which solely the ladies can overrule in the event that they finally need contact.
“You took a life and injured your kids. That they had a proper to count on safety from you,” Choose John Hubbard advised the dad of the decades-long no-contact order.
Samantha Garnier was as a result of give start in February.
Her daughters are nonetheless recovering from their accidents — and have been adopted by their maternal grandfather.
“I’m their father now,” Vernagallo mentioned at sentencing. “I’ll defend them.”
