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02-13-2004, 09:30 PM
Paper Publishes Poem Written By Man Who Admits Killing Daughter
The man who admits to beating and torturing his 3-year-old daughter to death last month wrote a poem from his jail cell dedicated to the child. The poem was published in the Booneville Sentinel.
Michael Riley is being held in the death of his daughter, Alexis. Family members say the little girl was bruised from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet, her skull fractured. Alexis lived for several days in critical condition before she died at UK Children's Hospital
The publication of the poem has outraged Owsley County residents. In his chilling poem, titled "Daddy's Little Girl, God's Little Angel" Riley writes "It was only true to take your daddy's heart, because you were daddy's little girl from the start. But in an instant your life was taken from me. Now I sit here sad and lonely. I wonder why God picked my one and only."
"I just think it was inappropriate they would print that from the person that murdered this little child," said Owlsey County resident David Combs. "I think the man's disturbed."
Riley faces murder and abuse charges. His girlfriend, Doroth Birch, faces complicity to murder and abuse as well as tampering with evidence.
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=1640128
I'm apalled a newspaper would print this .
The man who admits to beating and torturing his 3-year-old daughter to death last month wrote a poem from his jail cell dedicated to the child. The poem was published in the Booneville Sentinel.
Michael Riley is being held in the death of his daughter, Alexis. Family members say the little girl was bruised from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet, her skull fractured. Alexis lived for several days in critical condition before she died at UK Children's Hospital
The publication of the poem has outraged Owsley County residents. In his chilling poem, titled "Daddy's Little Girl, God's Little Angel" Riley writes "It was only true to take your daddy's heart, because you were daddy's little girl from the start. But in an instant your life was taken from me. Now I sit here sad and lonely. I wonder why God picked my one and only."
"I just think it was inappropriate they would print that from the person that murdered this little child," said Owlsey County resident David Combs. "I think the man's disturbed."
Riley faces murder and abuse charges. His girlfriend, Doroth Birch, faces complicity to murder and abuse as well as tampering with evidence.
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=1640128
I'm apalled a newspaper would print this .