An unhinged Connecticut father who allegedly threatened to "make my son disappear any time of the day," according to court documents seeking a restraining order, made good on the threat.
The body of a 7-month-old boy was found in the Connecticut River on Tuesday, two days after his despondent dad tossed the infant off a bridge and then jumped himself, police said.
Tony Moreno, 22, plunged approximately 90 feet off the Arrigoni Bridge, a steel arch structure which connects Middletown and Portland, Conn.
He survived the fall and his condition is improving but his child's body was found about 14 miles down river near the East Haddam Bridge,
the Hartford Courant reported.
Little Aaden Moreno was taken from the water by Connecticut State Police around 8 p.m.
The death comes on the heels of a bitter custody fight. The child's mother, 19-year-old Adrianne Oyola, was granted a temporary restraining order, only to have it revoked 12 days later on June 29.
"He has told me he could make my son disappear any time of the day," she wrote in her initial court filing, the Courant reported.
"He told me how he could make me disappear, told me how he could kill me. I sometimes am scared to sleep. He told me he would put me in the ground and put something on me to make me disintegrate faster."
Oyola, who graduated from Middletown High School last month, called the controlling Moreno mentally and physically abusive as well as a "danger" to Aaden.
Yet Superior Court Judge Barry C. Pinkus ruled the young father was not an "imminent" threat, according to the Courant.