Last week, a former mixed martial arts fighter admitted guilt to second-degree murder for the tragic death of his 5-year-old daughter. The child was discovered lifeless, cramped into a pack-and-play so undersized that she was curled into a fetal position.

In her final days, Charlotte Buskey was confined to a bedroom, devoid of food, water, or any connection to the outside world, according to a report by the Daily Voice.

Her younger brother, aged three at the time, also faced isolation, trapped within a cage in the dining room of a residence described by the Schenectady County District Attorney’s Office as a “house of horrors.”

Authorities charged Robert Buskey Jr., 35, with the prolonged neglect of his children over several months.

Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney stated, “Charlotte was sealed off in her bedroom until she succumbed to dehydration and starvation. Their reality was reduced to the squalid confines of Mr. Buskey’s appalling home.”

When investigators were called to the house for an “unresponsive child” in April 2024, they found it “stocked with food,” including unopened boxes stacked right outside Charlotte’s locked bedroom door.

Charlotte’s body was so dehydrated that he eyes were sunk into her skull, and an autopsy found no food whatseover in her body.

Buskey also pleaded guilty to giving his son cocaine. He is expected to be sentenced to 25 years on the murder charge and two years on the drug charge. Both Charlotte and her brother tested positive for the drug. Sentencing is set for March, WRGB said.

According to the Times-Union, he is forbidden from any contact with his son, now the same age as Charlotte when he killed her.

Buskey was an amateur MMA fighter in New York, fighting his last fight in 2019. He also fought a single kickboxing match in 2022.