Dad left toddler outside to freeze to death

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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The father of a young girl who died of exposure had knocked her unconscious because he was angry she wouldn't go to bed, then took her outside in freezing temperatures and left her there, police said before the man's arraignment Thursday.

Nyia Miangel Page, who was about to turn 2, was found dead Sunday on a wooded knoll about a 10 minute walk from the family's home.

Tiny footprints in the snow suggested she had gotten up and wandered around before she died, police said.

Her father, William Lorenzo Page, 23, of Braddock, was arrested on charges of criminal homicide, kidnapping, false reports and simple assault. He did not have an attorney in court Thursday morning, and was jailed without bond.

Page told police he woke up early Saturday and found the girl awake and playing near a mirror in the hallway, according to the criminal complaint. He said he got mad when the girl wouldn't go back to bed, so he hit her so hard she hit her head and was unconscious, the complaint said.

Page then took her outside wrapped in a blanket and left her, police said.

An autopsy determined Nyia died of hypothermia, but the Allegheny County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide because investigators said it was unreasonable to assume the child got to the wooded location alone.

Her small body was found about a 10-minute walk from her home, a trek that would have included climbing 17 snowy steps up to a wooded knoll.

A witness had seen Page enter his house Saturday morning from the direction where his daughter was found, police said. He was back out on the street about an hour later, saying he was looking for the girl and telling the witness, "Somebody took my daughter," according to a criminal complaint.

Nyia's mother told police she last saw the girl after Nyia tried to crawl into bed with her parents about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. The mother told police she put the youngster back into her own bed in an upstairs room.

Police, emergency crews and bloodhounds searched in 20-degree temperatures for most of two days before finding the little girl's body.

Page, who did not have an attorney in court Thursday morning, was jailed without bond.

[TiFFany08]

jeeze not to mean to put her outside they should ship his ass out side in freezing weather see how he likes it

[TiFFany08]

This is just sad, How, HOW the FUCK can you leave a baby unsupervised for one second !

Why the fuck do people make kids if they don't care abt them.

It's rly sad, imagine that kid in his mind, his first days on earth and his mindless father leaves him to die in a rly painful day. imagine that kid would some day become grown up and have his own life.

this makes me sick.

honestly.

i know if they don't want them they should give the kid to someone that wants him jeeze that is so sick to just let your poor kid freeze that poor kid it said it was walking around man i feel so bad for it

[Inches]

This is just sad, How, HOW the FUCK can you leave a baby unsupervised for one second !

Why the fuck do people make kids if they don't care abt them.

It's rly sad, imagine that kid in his mind, his first days on earth and his mindless father leaves him to die in a rly painful day. imagine that kid would some day become grown up and have his own life.

this makes me sick.

honestly.

exactly what he said

[*MIRANDA*]

thats just fucked up
i feel sick reading this

[Flamez]

wow this fucked up its sad..i agree with blackheart this is fucked up seriously

[sweet_angel200629]

wow he should really get punished for that, i mean just think what that little kid went though......

[ripbigproof]

something like this happened to an old
lady, she was just outside her house and
she frooze to death.

[DjSnax]

youd think somebody would hear her crying outide...this is where i like the old system in iraq, if you rape somebody you lose your penis, in this case they should drop his ass off in antartica.... or even worse northern canada