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Jealous father kills 21 month cancer survivor daughter
Updated : Sep 17, 2016
21-month-old baby girl, Maddox, was brutally killed by her father all due to jealousy that she has been receiving a lot of attention than him. Maddox had spent the last year with cancer and beat the disease into submission. Prosecutors say Lawrence may have killed his daughter because he was jealous over the attention she'd received from her cancer diagnosis. Ryan Lawrence, 25, was arrested two days after he abducted his little girl, leaving a message for his wife saying that he might harm her or himself, police said. “Ryan, if you're listening, please just bring Maddox home,” Maddox’s mom, Morgan Lawrence, tearfully pleaded after her daughter was taken. “Maddox, I love you honey. Ryan, please, just at least call.” Lawrence admitted in court to beating his daughter to death with a wooden baseball bat before burning her body in a fire pit and then tying her remains to a cinder block and dumping them in the water. Maddox's mother, Morgan Lawrence, told police her husband was supposed to pick her up from her job at the Destiny USA shopping mall the night of February 20 but instead left the car and keys for her in a parking lot.