PETERSBURG, Florida — A man seen throwing his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge refused to answer questions Monday as a judge appointed him a public defender.
John Jonchuck had seemed reject a court-appointed attorney last week when he said he wanted to leave his fate “in the hands of God.”
Police say 5-year-old Phoebe Jonchuck was likely alive when her father sped past a police officer early Thursday morning, then pulled over to the side of the bridge. The officer could only watch from a distance as John Jonchuck pulled the girl from the back seat and dropped her to her death in the waters of Florida’s Tampa Bay.
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