Thursday, September 02, 1999
Second hidden pregnancy causes family new anguish
BY JANICE MORSE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Carin Madden
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WAYNE TOWNSHIP — Gary Madden is making funeral plans for a grandchild he's never seen — and didn't know was conceived until his daughter was accused of killing her.
“I'm worried about her, and I'm so sad about that little baby. Had we known (about the pregnancy), it never, ever would have ended like this,” he said Wednesday, wiping tears from his eyes.
“I can't change a thing, as much as I would like to. If I was Superman and could fly backward around the Earth and turn back time, I would do it. But I'm not, and I can't.”
Mr. Madden, 48, said his family has been immersed in anguish, confusion and frustration since Saturday. That morning, a Rumpke garbage truck driver discovered a full-term baby girl dead amid the trash, and police traced the infant to the Maddens' Jacksonburg Road home.
Mr. Madden's daughter, Carin Marie, who turned 20 on Aug. 25, was arrested and charged with murder. A preliminary hearing, originally set for today, has been rescheduled for Tuesday.
Ms. Madden remains in the county jail without bond. And the Madden family and their friends are trying to answer the many questions the case raises, while police continue investigating.
Mr. Madden said he could understand why his daughter kept a previous pregnancy a secret. “She was 15 and didn't want people to think she was loose, because she wasn't,” he said.
Records show that baby, born Dec. 16, 1995, was placed for adoption by the time it was 5 months old, said Rob Clevenger, director of Butler County Juvenile Court. An alleged father was ruled out by a paternity test, and the child's paternity never was determined.
In the case of the baby found Saturday, Ms. Madden has named a man as the father, and Butler County Sheriff's Maj. Anthony Dwyer said officials plan to perform a paternity test.
Mr. Madden said he has no idea why his daughter would keep this second pregnancy a secret. But photographs show she hid it convincingly.
The photos show Ms. Madden at a baby shower at the Hamilton home of her 28-year-old stepsister around July 24.
At that time, Ms. Madden would have been about eight months' pregnant. Yet, as she stood gesturing toward the swollen stomach of her stepsister, who was seven months' pregnant, there was no telltale bulge under Ms. Madden's baggy white T-
shirt; no obvious swelling of her face or legs.
“It's so hard to believe she'd be in that situation — with another pregnant woman that she was close with — and didn't whisper a word that she was pregnant, too,” he said. “In my opinion, she totally blocked it out of her mind, like she did the first time. She reverted back to when she was 15.”
Mr. Madden said he was finalizing funeral arrangements Wednesday for the baby — and was going to keep the service private.
“One of the hardest things,” he said, “is you have to have a name to bury someone. I don't know what to name it.”
He doubts any possibility the baby might have remained alive in the house for several days, as some officials have said. Mr. Madden thinks the family's three dogs would have alerted him to it.
When asked for further details, Mr. Madden said he simply doesn't know. He said he has spoken to his daughter in jail a couple of times by telephone, and she sounds confused.
“She has no idea what she's done,” he said. “She knows she's sorry. That's all she knows.”
Mr. Madden said he can't believe his daughter would intentionally harm anyone, because she would free mice, fish and insects that had been caught in or around their farmhouse.
“I wish I could stand up and shout really loud, or print out a bunch of fliers that say, "She was a good kid.' But it wouldn't matter because I couldn't get it so absolutely everyone would hear it or see it,” he said.
“How do you figure out any of this?” he said. “About all you can do is sigh — and wonder why.”
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