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Father charged in daughter’s death
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A Baker County grand jury has indicted the father of a 2-month-old baby who died Nov. 7 on two counts of murder, alleging two separate theories of how the infant died. Gerald Dewayne Roe III, 19, of Haines, was arraigned on the murder charges and on one count of first-degree manslaughter Thursday in Baker County Circuit Court, District Attorney Matt Shirtcliff said. Shirtcliff said the first count of murder accuses Roe of committing a first-degree assault on his daughter, Mia Marie Roe, that led to her death. The second count alleges the baby died as a result of a second-degree assault that Gerald Roe committed. The manslaughter charge accuses Roe of “recklessly, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life,” causing the baby’s death, Shirtcliff said. “There is more than one physical act we’re alleging occurred,” he said. Mia Marie Roe, the 2-month-old daughter of Roe and his wife, Alicia Roe, 19, of Haines, died Nov. 7 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise. Gerald Roe initially took his daughter to St. Elizabeth Health Services Nov. 3. The baby later was flown to the Boise hospital in critical condition. Shirtcliff said Mia Roe suffered “severe head trauma consistent with abuse.” Police arrested Gerald Roe on Nov. 4 in Boise on charges of first- degree assault and first-degree criminal mistreatment after members of the Baker County Major Crime Team investigated the baby’s injuries. Roe was returned to Baker County from the Ada County Jail in Boise Wednesday. He is being held at the Baker County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail. The charges carry mandatory minimum sentences upon conviction. The mandatory minimum for a murder conviction is 25 years; a first-degree manslaughter conviction carries a mandatory minimum 10-year prison term. |
