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Jolie Rouge · 02-09-2007, 01:23 AM

Father charged in child's exposure death
By RAMESH SANTANAM, Associated Press Writer

PITTSBURGH - A man angry his toddler daughter wouldn't go to bed knocked her unconscious and left her to die outside in single-digit temperatures, police said.

The frozen body of Nyia Miangel Page, who was about to turn 2, was found Sunday at an abandoned playground about a 10-minute walk from the family's home. Tiny footprints in the snow suggest she had gotten up and wandered around before she died, police said.

Her father, William Lorenzo Page, 23, of Braddock, was arrested Wednesday on charges of criminal homicide, kidnapping, false reports and simple assault. He has been in custody since Sunday, when he was charged with sexually abusing another child shortly before Nyia died.

Page, who did not have an attorney at his arraignment Thursday morning, was jailed without bond.

Page told police he woke up early Saturday and found the girl awake and playing near a mirror in the hallway, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday night. He said he got mad when the girl wouldn't go back to bed so he hit her so hard she hit her head and was unconscious, the complaint said.

Police said Page told them he took the girl outside wrapped in a blanket and left her, still breathing, beside railroad tracks near a bridge. Police said a T-shirt, a pair of women's underwear and a Pittsburgh Steelers "Terrible Towel," all found in Page's basement, appeared to have been stained with dried blood.

An autopsy determined Nyia died of hypothermia, but the Allegheny County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide because investigators said it was unreasonable to assume the child had made it alone to the playground, which is on a wooded knoll. The toddler would have had to have climbed 17 snowy steps to get there.

Authorities could only guess how long Nyia, wearing only a sweater and a diaper, could have survived in temperatures that hovered around 2 degrees Saturday morning. "Given her size, she would have been rendered incapacitated very quickly," Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl E. Williams said Thursday. "She'd been out so long, when we found her she was frozen."

A witness saw Page enter his house Saturday morning from the direction where his daughter was found, police said. He was back out on the street about an hour later, saying he was looking for the girl and telling the witness, "Somebody took my daughter," according to a criminal complaint.

Nyia's mother told police she last saw the girl after Nyia tried to crawl into bed with her parents about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. The mother told police she put the youngster back into her own bed in an upstairs room.

Police, emergency crews and bloodhounds searched in 20-degree temperatures for most of two days before finding the little girl's body.

The sexual abuse charge against Page came as police investigated Nyia's disappearance. Police said another child in the house told investigators that sometime overnight Friday, Page entered a bedroom, covered the child's mouth with one hand and touched the child's genitals with the other. The child said Page then left the room, followed by Nyia, police said.

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Shut the SOB in a meat locker in his boxer shorts

gmyers · 02-09-2007, 01:52 AM

Has anybody else noticed that a lot of these child abuse cases seem to be people in their early twenties. I'm beginning to think people that age shouldn't have kids. They don't have any patience and they hurt or kill the children for little or no reason. They don't seem to bond with their children at all or how could they possibly do what they're doing to them. That poor baby What she must have went through before she died.

BeanieLuvR · 02-09-2007, 02:24 AM

I was thinking about the same thing, Jolie. Put him out in the cold to die just like he did that poor little girl. Of course once the other inmates find out why he is there once he goes to prison I think they will take care of him.

MOM2B2003 · 02-09-2007, 02:49 AM

Sad, sad, sad & sick, sick, sick. It takes one VERY sick ******* to do that to a child!!! What the HELL was going through his head at the time that he HIT the child, wrapped her up, and carried her outside???? Where is that signal that told him that what he was doing is just WRONG?!?!

Maybe the other prisoners will take care of him before he even goes to trial. Then good tax dollars won't have to be spent on such a pathetic loser for the trial!

CLEATUS · 02-09-2007, 07:59 AM

I don't think it has anything to do with age, I was 16 and my now husband was 20 when I had my daughter and it was very hard for us for a few years, but I never would have nor would he have done anything to hurt our daughter. I also have alot of friends who are young parents and they take good care of their children too. Actually, some better than older people I know.
I just think a scary portion of the population are unfit to have children. There are not strict enough penalties for these people who abuse and molest children. I think if they make an example out of some people it will possible detour others from these horrible acts.

MistyWolf · 02-09-2007, 08:18 AM

How sad and sick! That poor baby.

earnhardt1 · 02-09-2007, 08:18 AM

this is sad it is 25 mintes from me a yesterday another amber alert fora 4 yr old stolen from the childrens musem in pittsburgh

PrincessArky · 02-09-2007, 10:51 AM

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Police said Page told them he took the girl outside wrapped in a blanket and left her, still breathing, beside railroad tracks near a bridge. Police said a T-shirt, a pair of women's underwear and a Pittsburgh Steelers "Terrible Towel," all found in Page's basement, appeared to have been stained with dried blood.

Nyia's mother told police she last saw the girl after Nyia tried to crawl into bed with her parents about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. The mother told police she put the youngster back into her own bed in an upstairs room.

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looks like maybe the mother was involved???

killbarney · 02-09-2007, 11:47 AM

Why would you think that? It's likely she put the baby back to bed and then went back to sleep and that SOB got up later and killed her.

"Page, meet Bubba"

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Originally Posted by PrincessArky

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Police said Page told them he took the girl outside wrapped in a blanket and left her, still breathing, beside railroad tracks near a bridge. Police said a T-shirt, a pair of women's underwear and a Pittsburgh Steelers "Terrible Towel," all found in Page's basement, appeared to have been stained with dried blood.

Nyia's mother told police she last saw the girl after Nyia tried to crawl into bed with her parents about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. The mother told police she put the youngster back into her own bed in an upstairs room.

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looks like maybe the mother was involved???

PrincessArky · 02-09-2007, 11:58 AM

Wasn't saying more like asking why exactly there is dried blood on the woman's panties (IF it is the little girl's blood)? I mean did it get there when it happened or later? I am also wondering if she was hit one time or multiple times?

Tasha405 · 02-09-2007, 12:20 PM

This is so sad.