[NYPOST] A father in Michigan who found his 10-month-old daughter dead inside her crib coolly and callously told a police dispatcher 90 minutes after finding her that the girl was "dead as a doorknob," recordings show.A prosecutor in Kent County played a recording of the call on Wednesday made by Seth Welch, 27, on Aug. 2 after finding his daughter, Mary, unresponsive inside their home in Solon Township, MLive.com reports.
"You know, just another day," Welch told a dispatcher when asked how he was doing after the girl’s death. "It is what it is."
Welch and his wife, Tatiana Fusari, were charged in August with felony murder and first-degree child abuse after an autopsy revealed the girl died from malnutrition and dehydration due to neglect by adult caregivers.
The girl weighed only 8 pounds when she was found. Police said in an affidavit that the couple admitted that their daughter had been underweight but appeared healthy. Welch and Fusari said they didn’t seek medical help because they didn’t trust doctors because they were previously reported to child welfare officials after they disagreed with a doctor’s recommendation for their 4-year-old daughter.