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Dad of girl found dead in crib guilty of corpse abuse

Posted at 12:44 PM, Jun 08, 2016
and last updated 2016-06-08 12:44:10-04
A judge in Ohio has convicted a father of corpse abuse after his daughter's decomposed body was found in a crib.
 
Thirty-five-year-old Eric Warfel also was found guilty Wednesday of tampering with evidence.
 
 
Ember Warfel's body was discovered last July by a cable company worker in a Medina (meh-DY'-nuh) apartment, south of Cleveland.
 
Medical examiners couldn't determine how the 21-month-old girl died because of her body's state of decomposition. Warfel's attorney has said Ember was born with severe medical problems.
 
Warfel had another daughter who died in 2013. A medical examiner ruled the 5-month-old's death as "sudden unexplained infant death."