Thursday, May 22, 2025 - A New York dad f@tally st@bbed his pregnant wife and then tried to k!ll his two young daughters because he was angry he wasn’t going to have a son, according to the slain woman’s father.
Drew Garnier, 33, admitted to repeatedly st@bbing his
five-months-pregnant wife, Samantha Garnier, 29, and their children, Izzie, 6,
and Adelina, 9, in the bloodbath at the family’s home in Masonville on Sept. 4
last year, according to the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office.
His wife and their unborn child both d!ed in the attack, which was just weeks before the mom was to turn 30. The young girls are recovering from “significant injuries,” the DA said.
Garnier k!lled in anger that his wife was again pregnant
with a girl, Samantha’s grieving father, Gregory Vernagallo, said in a victim
impact statement at sentencing.
“He wanted a boy,” Vernagallo told the court.
Garnier pleaded guilty last month to first-degree
m@nslaughter and two counts of first-degree assault — both class B violent
felonies.
He was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison — with 15
years of post-release supervision — as part of the plea deal aimed at
protecting the surviving daughters from the trauma of a trial.
“We were able to secure this conviction without forcing two young children to testify about the horrific things they witnessed,” District Attorney Shawn Smith said of the sentence being lighter than he wanted.
The k!ller dad has also been forbidden from seeing his
daughters until 2056 — the maximum allowed — which only the girls can overrule
if they eventually want contact.
“You took a life and injured your children. They had a right
to expect protection from you,” Judge John Hubbard told the dad of the
decades-long no-contact order.
Samantha Garnier was due to give birth in February.
Her daughters are still recovering from their injuries — and
have been adopted by their maternal grandfather.
“I am their father now,” Vernagallo said at sentencing. “I will protect them.
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