A Florida man is accused of callously goading his teenage daughter to kill herself by calling her “pregnant and worthless” two days before she attempted suicide, according to court records.
Gared Wayne Canales, 33, told his 13-year-old daughter in a conversation over speakerphone in April that she was a “whore” and to “go kill yourself,” an arrest affidavit alleges.
The vicious verbal onslaught began April 7 when the teenager called her father on speakerphone while her friends were hanging out with her in her room.
The abuse prompted the young girl to slice her wrist with a knife and piece of glass, then swallow 14 Benadryl pills on April 9, the document charges. After telling her mother what she’d done, she was rushed to the Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach, where her stomach was pumped.
A restraining order barring Canales from any contact with his daughter was issued June 19.
