FLORIDA MAN BEATS BABY TO DEATH BECAUSE "SHE'S NOT A HE"

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Marcos Gomez-Romero told sheriff's detectives he wanted a son.

Every time he looked at his baby girl, Gomez-Romero said he grew annoyed
and angry because she was not the boy he had hoped for.

Gomez-Romero told detectives that abusing his daughter, Ariana Lizeth
Rodriguez-Romero, became such a "habit" that he slapped her while she
slept.

Ariana died Christmas Day. She was 4 months old.

On Thursday, a Polk County grand jury indicted Gomez-Romero, 28, on
charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse for Ariana's
death.

A medical examiner found dozens of internal and external injuries on
Ariana's body. The infant had five new fractures on her ribs and more
than a dozen old fractures. There was a hematoma and a cut on her
spleen. Her liver was bruised, as was her jaw.

When questioned by a Polk County sheriff's detective the day after
Ariana died, Gomez-Romero said he was angry when his daughter was born
because he wanted a son, reports said.

Gomez-Romero, who lives in Winter Haven, told a detective he called his
daughter an "ugly girl, a prostitute and deny [sic] she was his
daughter," a Sheriff's Office report said.

Gomez-Romero said he picked Ariana up by her hands to carry her. He said
he spanked her several times out of anger because she would not stop
crying.

When a detective asked Gomez-Romero what a 4-month-old could do to
warrant such severe punishment, the report said he stated, "Nothing."

"Gomez-Romero made it clear that his anger and hostility towards his
daughter was due to the fact that she was a girl and he had wanted a
son," the sheriff's report said.

Sheriff's detectives also interviewed Ariana's mother, Juana Rodriguez-
Perez, who said Gomez-Romero would carry Ariana by her hands into the
bedroom and close the door.

Shortly after, the report said, their daughter would begin to cry.

Rodriguez-Perez told the detective when she threatened to call the
police on Ariana's father, he would threaten to leave with their 2-year-
old son.

Gomez-Romero is being held at the Polk County Jail.

State Attorney's Office spokesman Chip Thullbery on Friday said that
although the infant's mother has not been arrested, "the possibility of
charging her has not been foreclosed at this moment."


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Rob Cypher
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YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED - RESISTANCE IS FUTILE