Another SOB. With crimes like this against children being all too common nowadays, that special place in hell reserved for these criminals must be getting full.

Associated Press:
PITTSBURGH � The father of a young girl who died of exposure had knocked her unconscious because he was angry, then took her outside in subfreezing 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.

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

Nyia's family reported her missing Saturday morning after another child alerted them that the toddler wasn't in her bed.

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.

Joel Littlefield
Hunt County

Just when you thought you had seen it all...

i can't even articulate how filled with rage this story makes me. i wasn't born with enough middle fingers for this joker.

you are right. there is a special place in hell for people like him. In fact hell is too good. imagine the hell the little girl went through as she slowly froze to death. She truley suffered.

This reminds me of one of the lines from the movie "Parenthood", when Keanau Reeves says "you know, you have to have a license to drive, a license to hunt, but any son of a @#%*! can have a kid". Too bad for these babies that there isn't a requirement to have instructions and be licensed before having a child. Since that is only a dream, the best we can do is work hard to to assure their punishment is strong. God bless that baby.

Of course the saddest aspect is the loss of life of that child. Next to that is the large number of wonderful people who would have taken this precious child (they all are precious) into their lives.

I don't know if there is a level of hell deep enough for this sob.

Today the papers reported allegations that this defendant sexually assaulted another child in his home.

Bump him down a couple of more levels in hell.