Dad shoves fingers down newborn’s throat, killing him for ‘crying too much’
Homicide
A Missouri man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to shoving his fingers down his 9-week-old son’s throat, killing him. St. Louis Dispatch reports that Robert James Burnette, 21, admitted that he he shoved his fingers down infant Jaxon Burnette’s throat because the baby wouldn’t stop crying. Burnette claimed he was trying to find the baby’s voice box to …