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Fresno, California: A Marine accused of killing his newborn son after his wife died of childbirth complications was charged four days after the three-month-old's death.
Lance Cpl Robert Quiroz, 20, was charged on Wednesday with murder, two felony counts of assault on a child causing death and corporal injury to a child, said Assistant District Attorney Robert Ellis.
He is accused of beating his son, Roman Quiroz, to death. Quiroz was jailed on Monday and is being held at the Fresno County Jail in lieu of $1 million (Dh3.67 million) bail. His 18-month-old daughter has been taken into protective custody.
Quiroz told a TV station in September that he felt overwhelmed as a single parent of two and struggled to accept his son. In August, Quiroz had been sent on Iraq duty. He was called back three days later because his wife died of aneurism after childbirth.
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