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Lancaster man gets 25 to life for drowning 1-year-old daughter

by The AV Times Staff • August 12, 2016

PASADENA – A man who drowned his year-old daughter in Pasadena because he didn’t want to be a father was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in state prison.

Marquise Jackson, 26, of Lancaster, was found guilty July 20 of one count each of first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death.

Prosecutors said Jackson killed his daughter, Mo’Nayjah Jackson, on May 20, 2011.

According to the evidence presented at trial, Jackson drowned baby Mo’Nayjah at the apartment of the child’s mother, in the 100 block of West Del Mar Boulevard in Pasadena, while the mother was at work.

The baby wasn’t breathing when police and firefighters were called to the residence, and rescue workers unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate her.

Police said Jackson subsequently confessed to the killing, telling investigators that he didn’t want the responsibilities of being a father.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety

7 comments for "Lancaster man gets 25 to life for drowning 1-year-old daughter"

  1. CaliPalmdale says

    August 16, 2016 at 8:41 am

    ONCE gain this system has failed why keep this trash alive he don’t deserve it there’s must be more to this he dint want to be a father yeah right I think he got into an argument with the babies mom and in retaliation he did what he did crazy people STILL WHY IS HE BREATHING WATE OF AIR and waste of tax payers money instead of feeding that trash free college education for one or two a year same cost to keep that POS alive.

  2. p says

    August 16, 2016 at 6:22 am

    sick to my stomach

  3. Shannon says

    August 16, 2016 at 4:48 am

    Well now ur not a father, poor baby isn’t living, a mother has no child and because u were a coward punk and couldn’t wrap ur dick up, sign ur rights over or just not have sex a baby is dead and a mother is dying inside. U piece of [removed]

  4. billy g says

    August 14, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    wow.. they say you can drop off a kid you dont want at a fire station.. maybe we should raise the age of kids u can do that with…

  5. Тruмp2016 says

    August 13, 2016 at 1:53 am

    “He didn’t want to be a father”.. What a shame, now he will be everyone’s girlfriend.

    • Jim says

      August 14, 2016 at 11:33 am

      Yeah,I was thinking the same thing,No risk of pregnancy there….

  6. Mike C says

    August 12, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    If ever there was a real human piece of [removed] this guy is it. I hope they kill him in prison.

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