Bronx Supreme Court Justice Audrey Stone has sentenced a father named Damion Comager to seven years in prison after he shook his three-month-old girl to death and dumped her body in trash-strewn woods near Yankee Stadium.
On Wednesday, 26-year-old Comager was sentenced on first-degree manslaughter and concealment of a human corpse charges for the May 2023 killing of his infant daughter Genevieve.
On August 15, Comager pleaded guilty to the charges, according to authorities.
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Prosecutors revealed that at some point between May 10 and May 16, 2023, the violent father shook his daughter to death because she would not stop crying inside a homeless shelter in Highbridge, where the two lived alongside the infant’s mother, Ivana Paolozzi.
Authorities said Comager and Paolozzi then dressed little Genevieve’s body, put her in a stroller, and dumped her bagged remains in a wooded area on the side of the Major Deegan Expressway.
On May 29, 2023, the pair were arrested after Comager reportedly confessed to his dad, who went on to report to cops, and that led to the search that turned up Genevieve’s body.
The DA’s office stated that charges against Paolozzi of tampering with physical evidence, concealment of a human corpse, and second-degree obstructing governmental administration are still pending, and she was previously released with monitoring at her arraignment.
At the time, Paolozzi was regarded a as “significant flight risk” because she held a Swiss passport while being in the US with an expired visa status.
The charges against her were not seen as eligible for bail under the state’s controversial 2019 criminal justice reforms.
“In a shocking display of cruelty, this defendant took the life of his 3-month-old daughter Genevieve and then showed a lack of humanity by leaving the infant’s body in a garbage-ridden place. This sentence brings justice for an innocent life taken so soon,” Clark said in a statement after the sentencing.
Donald Comager, the father of Damion, told The Post that he is “grateful” his son still has a chance to get his life together, but still thinks about baby Genevieve “all the time.”
“It just makes me kind of grateful that he still has a chance to get his life together and come home. Seven years is better than life in prison.” Donald Comager said, noting he hasn’t spoken to his son since he went to jail.
“I worry about him all the time,” he said. The grieving grandfather is holding onto his granddaughter’s remains.
“I got her remains with me … I think about her all the time.” Comager struggled with mental illness and was diagnosed bipolar and schizophrenic as a child, his dad said.
