GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Jury selection is underway for the father accused of murder in the dehydration death of his 10-month old daughter.
Mary Welch was discovered in her crib in her home northwest of Cedar Springs on Aug. 2, 2018.
It would be ruled she died of dehydration, weighing 8 pounds — about what a newborn should weigh — as she lied on a filthy mattress covered with mold in a home filled with garbage and flies, according to investigators.
The baby’s father, 28-year-old Seth Welch, allegedly waited 90 minutes after his wife discovered the deceased child to call 911 telling a dispatcher that the child was “dead as a doorknob.”
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