Gared Wayne Canales, a 34-year-old former resident of Palm Coast who had been sought on a nationwide warrant since April, was located in Massachusetts, returned to Flagler County and booked at the Flagler County jail on a child abuse charge stemming from accusations that he goaded his daughter into taking her own life as he insulted and demeaned her on her 13th birthday.
The girl cut herself and attempted suicide shortly afterward, and was hospitalized.
The alleged incident took place on April 7. Canales had texted the girl’s mother in early afternoon, when the girl was still away with her friends. The girl had had been struggling about her feelings toward her father according to a statement by her mother to law enforcement. She called him around 3 p.m. that day. Two of her friends were with her in her bedroom. According to what the girl and one of her friends told Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies, Canales called her vile names and said: “You’re not worth it. I choose my girlfriend over you anyway, and go kill yourself.”
The next night the girl cut her own wrist, what was described as “a minor cut” in an incident report, causing some bleeding. She did so again with a piece of glass the following night, and with a baseball bat, smashed a portrait of herself and Canales. The morning of April 10, she took seven pills of Benadryl, and while she was in the car with her mother, on their way to pick up her step-father from work, she took another seven pills, according to the incident report.
She told her mother she had done so. (The mother’s written statement differs in this regard: the mother had reported having a ad feeling about what was happening to her daughter and had picked her up from school, when she learned of the pills.) Her mother changed directions and took her daughter to Halifax hospital in Daytona Beach, where the girl’s stomach was pumped.
Detectives reviewed text messages on the girl’s phone with her father, a felony child abuse charge was filed on April 14, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The State Attorney’s Office filed the charge on May 11. On May 25, the warrant was amended to reflect that it was nationwide. Canales’s address at the time was believed to be in Lake Charles, La. A notice to appear sent there was returned undelivered. He was located in Massachusetts.
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