GUILTY NY - Laurne Clark aka Mollie Sliker, 4 mos, dies of abuse, Watertown, 24 March 2011

This is heartbreaking on so many, many levels.

Jeffrey Sliker aged 23 was wounded in 2009 during service for the US Army. Sliker and his wife were hoping to adopt the 4 month old little girl they were caring for until the paperwork was final. BTW, apparently the adoption got held up, but the Army is not sure why.

By all account Sliker was a good athlete and a scholar in High School. Photographs from him being wounded in Afghanistan. He did receive a serious head wound.


http://newsblog.projo.com/2011/03/soldier-from-middletown-charge-1.html


This isn't the first article I've posted about a wounded warrior murdering an infant in their care. Also Sliker's Unit was being deployed again. However, he was at the end of his unit to go.

So, so, so sad. Heartbreakingly sad for this little doll and the entire Sliker family.

RIP sweet doll. Prayers for the Sliker family as well. I just couldn't even begin to fathom this.

Sliker's brother on video. Jeffrey Sliker had received The Purple Heart.




http://centralny.ynn.com/content/top_stories/537885/family-of-jeffrey-sliker-speaks/

RIP sweet baby, what a tragedy!

Jeffrey Sliker has been indicted in the murder of his daughter.




http://middletown.patch.com/articles/grand-jury-indicts-middletown-soldier-for-murder-of-infant

From January 2012:

http://www.wwnytv.com/news/local/Breaking-Soldier-Pleads-In-Baby-Death-138422269.html

A Watertown man pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to second degree murder in the death of the four and a half month old baby girl he was adopting.

Appearing in Jefferson County Court, 24 year old Jeffrey Sliker admitted he threw the baby into her crib twice. He said he knew she was hurt, but did nothing. By the time police arrived, the child was already dead...

The baby's birth name was Laurne Clark, but Sliker and his wife called her Mollie.

Click to expand...

http://www.wwnytv.com/news/local/Sliker-Sentenced-In-Baby-Death-142653436.html?m=y&smobile=y

A Watertown man, who murdered the baby girl he was adopting, was sentenced Wednesday in Jefferson County Court to 15 years to life in prison.

Click to expand...