23-month-old daughter, Lydia Wright
Michael Wright and Andrea Dusha
Pa. parents face death penalty for toddler's fatal 13 hours in car seat
By John Luciew
pennlive.com
The 23-month-old girl died after investigators in western Pennsylvania said she was left in a car seat for 13 hours back in February. Now, the Fayette County District Attorney announced Thursday he would seek the death penalty against her parents.
WPXI in Pittsburgh reports that criminal homicide suspects Andrea Dusha and Michael Wright allegedly placed their daughter, Lydia Wright, in a car seat at 9 p.m. February 23 and did not check on her until 10:30 a.m. February 24.
Police say it was not until the girl's mother went to give her daughter a drink more than 13 hours later that she noticed the girl was foaming at the mouth and then rushed her to the hospital, where she later died, WPXI writes, adding:
Police said the toddler was severely dehydrated and weighed only 10 pounds at the time of her death, less than half the average weight for a 2-year-old girl.
The same day the toddler was found dehydrated in the car seat, Dusha posted this to Facebook at 7:40 a.m.: "If you want the dead to stop coming back to life, then you have to kill the living."
Investigators also found the couple's Uniontown home in deplorable condition, including a highchair covered in feces, a needle on the bathroom floor and open bottles of pills.
The couple has two other children, a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old, who were not malnourished but were found living in those conditions, as well.
The couple remains jailed without bail.
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