Warwick Man to Serve 10 Years in Prison for "Unintentional Death" of 7-Month-Old Daughter

Warwick Man to Serve 10 Years in Prison for "Unintentional Death" of 7-Month-Old Daughter

A Warwick man has been sentenced to serve ten years in prison for involuntary manslaughter of his seven-month-old daughter, announced Attorney General Peter Neronha’s office on Friday.

Ryan Beeley, 40, was sentenced after pleading nolo contendere on June 14 to one count of involuntary manslaughter.

“The defendant, through egregious carelessness, caused the death of a child who had her whole life ahead of her. All that she could have hoped to have been, all the joys that she could have experienced and given to others, have been irretrievably lost. The defendant has been held accountable for his conduct and deservedly so. But nothing will bring this child back, and that is a tragedy,” said Neronha.

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Beeley is also required to receive mental health and substance abuse treatment as recommended by probation, as well as regular drug and alcohol screens as recommended by probation, for a 2017 incident that resulted in the unintentional death of Beeley’s daughter.

Guilty Plea

According to the Attorney General’s office, had the case proceeded to trial, the State was prepared to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that during the early evening on February 21, 2017, Beeley’s girlfriend left him home alone with their 7-month-old daughter in the bedroom of their home on Airway Road in Warwick.

Beeley was under the influence of drugs at the time – later determined by a toxicology report to have been fentanyl, clonazepam, cocaine, and methadone.

Beeley’s girlfriend returned to home and found him passed out on top of their daughter.

Warwick Rescue and Fire personnel were called to the scene and were unsuccessful in their efforts to save the infant.

According to the Attorney General’s office, the state would have ultimately proven that Beeley, in an intoxicated state, caused the unintentional death of his daughter due to asphyxiation.