‘Squeezed his baby to death’: Dad who murdered infant nicknamed ‘Strawberry,’ showed zero remorse while claiming ‘my baby’s not real’ as her mother worked 2 jobs receives fate

A Florida antheral is headed to situation for “viciously” beating his 4-month-old girl to decease aft causing her to endure 10 breached ribs, a skull fracture and hemorrhaging to her spine.

Jacob Kubai, 23, was sentenced to 30 years down bars aft helium pleaded blameworthy to aggravated manslaughter of a child, the State Attorney’s Office, 10th Judicial Circuit said successful a press release. Kubai was successful complaint of his daughter’s attraction portion his woman worked 2 jobs.

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As Law&Crime previously reported, Bartow constabulary were called astir 8:30 p.m. connected Feb. 22, 2024, to Bartow Regional Medical Center for a kid successful cardiac arrest. Medical unit successful a chopper flew the miss named Willow Kubai, whom everyone called “Strawberry,” to a infirmary successful Tampa, wherever she died 2 days later.

Detectives with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office aboriginal learned that Kubai rushed the miss to the infirmary aft uncovering her unresponsive. The begetter told investigators that helium and the miss dropped disconnected his wife, Willow’s mom, astatine enactment astatine astir 5 p.m., Sheriff Grady Judd said at a property league pursuing the arrest.

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Kubai said helium played video games for a portion and aboriginal went to Walmart astatine astir 6:40 p.m. to prime up immoderate items for meal and returned. He claimed helium fed the babe astatine 7:50 p.m. and checked connected her each 10 minutes until 8:10 p.m., erstwhile helium said helium recovered his girl abruptly unresponsive.

Kubai said helium administered CPR and past took the babe to the hospital.

When detectives reviewed the information cameras astatine Walmart, they saw helium was determination without the baby. Judd said investigators determined helium bushed Willow earlier leaving for the market store.

An autopsy revealed Willow’s horrific injuries: a skull fracture, aggregate bruises to her forehead, 10 fractured ribs, hemorrhaging to her spine and aggregate layers of encephalon bleed, Judd said. Investigators judge she suffered the breached ribs erstwhile Kubai squeezed her. Kubai besides deed Willow successful the forehead 10 times and utilized a hard entity to onslaught her successful the backmost of the head.

“The babe was virtually beaten to death,” Judd said.

While Kubai initially cooperated with cops, helium aboriginal changed his tune.

“He started saying ‘none of this is real,'” Judd said. “‘My wife’s not real. My baby’s not real. This is simply a fantasy. This conscionable didn’t happen.’ He started instantly playing games with us. He showed zero remorse. He shed not 1 teardrop and yet helium has virtually beaten and squeezed his babe to decease astatine 4 months old.”