A tragic incident unfolded in Ohio when a man allegedly took the life of his girlfriend’s infant daughter while she was out with her other kids. Upon her return, he reportedly fled the scene and ignored her subsequent attempts to contact him, later claiming the baby had fallen, prosecutors stated. The couple’s relationship had only lasted three months.

Glenn McIntosh, aged 32, faces murder charges related to the death of five-month-old Ameira Reynolds on October 13, as reported by The Columbus Dispatch. McIntosh, who was not the biological father, had been romantically involved with Ameira’s mother, whose identity remains undisclosed.

“You asked me to trust you and I trusted you with my baby, and you took her from me,” expressed Ameira’s grieving mother in a statement read by prosecutors in court. “You killed my baby girl. My baby didn’t deserve that. I can’t imagine what you put her through.”

According to prosecutors, McIntosh had been in a relationship with Ameira’s mother for around three months and was residing with her on Willard Brook Road in Madison Township. He was allegedly left alone with Ameira while her mother took her other two children out for approximately an hour.

Upon her return, McIntosh is said to have left the home immediately and remained unreachable by phone.

“Upon further observation, the baby was limp,” Assistant Franklin County Prosecutor Shania Goble said in court last Wednesday at McIntosh’s bond hearing, according to local ABC affiliate WSYX.

“[The mother] took the baby to the hospital, was frantically texting the defendant, trying to figure out what happened to her child. He was not responding,” Goble said.

Ameira was brought in to doctors with skull fractures and multiple injuries. She was pronounced dead at the hospital as a result of blunt force trauma. McIntosh allegedly responded to her mother in texts eventually, claiming the girl had fallen.

Police say Ameira’s injuries were inconsistent with the story that McIntosh tried telling them and Ameira’s mother, per the WSYX and the Dispatch.

“I don’t deserve to have to bury my 5-month-old baby,” the mom’s statement said. “I can’t believe I let my guard down and trusted you. You hurt her and let her suffer. A baby, a defenseless baby. How dare you. You are a monster, and you will reap what you sow.”

Describing Ameira in a GoFundMe description, the grieving mom said: “My sweet Angel, Ameira was taken from us way too soon. A mother is never prepared to bury her child please help us bring my baby to Glory. Her big eyes, that beautiful smile and all of our precious memories of her will live on forever.”

McIntosh was ordered held on a $2 million bond last week and was still behind bars on Sunday in Franklin County.