An Upstate New York dad fatally stabbed his pregnant spouse after which tried to kill his two younger daughters — simply because he was indignant he wasn’t going to have a son, based on the slain lady’s father.
Drew Garnier, 33, admitted to repeatedly stabbing his five-months-pregnant spouse, Samantha Garnier, 29, and their youngsters, Izzie, 6, and Adelina, 9, within the massacre on the household’s dwelling in Masonville on September 4 final 12 months, based on 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 ladies are recovering from “significant injuries,” 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 wanted a boy,” Vernagallo informed the court docket.
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 aimed toward defending the surviving daughters from the trauma of a trial.
“We were able to secure this conviction without forcing two young children to testify about the horrific things they witnessed,” District Lawyer Shawn Smith mentioned of the sentence being lighter than he needed.
The killer dad has additionally been forbidden from seeing his daughters till 2056 — the utmost allowed — which solely the women can overrule in the event that they finally need contact.
“You took a life and injured your children. They had a right to expect protection from you,” Choose John Hubbard informed the dad of the decades-long no-contact order.
Samantha Garnier was as a result of have given beginning this February.
Her daughters, Adelina and Izzie, are nonetheless recovering from their accidents — and have been adopted by their maternal grandfather.
“I am their father now,” Vernagallo mentioned at sentencing. “I will protect them.”
