“Well man the baby isn’t mine,” Senft wrote Thursday in a post on his Facebook page. “Just glad I’m with good friends and dad’s with me right now at this pool tournament, I’m sorry everyone… I tried.”
Senft had previously said he had no doubt he was the baby’s father, and he would petition for custody.
Kinsley died Dec. 3 at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Butler County law enforcement officials have said the toddler suffered abuse at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend, 26-year-old Bradley Young.
Rebekah Kinner, who is accused of doing nothing to stop the beating or seeking medical treatment for Kinsley afterward, is now back in jail awaiting her April trial.
Karla Edwards, Senft’s grandmother, said Friday that the family paid for private DNA testing because they wanted to know the results sooner than testing through Butler County Children Services.
“They sent the results to me,” Edwards said. “I told the family.”
Edwards said her daughter, Heidi Morgan (Senft’s mother), had some doubts about the paternity in the past couple days, but “it didn’t soften the blow, it’s devastating.”
Senft, Morgan and Kinner’s attorney Kyle Rapier did not return messages seeking comment Friday.
Douglas Kinner, Rebekah father and grandfather to Kinsley and Wyatt, said Senft is too immature to be raising a child.
“I am not saying he didn’t love Kinsley, but he is just too immature,” Douglas Kinner said, noting Senft “rarely” saw Kinsley.
The grandfather said he is angered with the way Butler County Children Services has handled the situation with his newborn grandson.
“I still haven’t held or seen that baby. That innocent little baby could have come home with me or someone in my family,” Douglas Kinner said. “We have been told they (Children Services) have two months to sort this out. To me, that’s kidnapping.”
Bill Morrison, director of Children Services, did not return messages seeking comment Friday.
Young pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, two counts of endangering children and involuntary manslaughter. Rebekah Kinner has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter, endangering children and permitting child abuse.
Rapier said his client gave testimony to a Butler County grand jury last month because she wants justice to be served, even if it hurts her own case.
“It’s being spun that she was just standing there and did nothing, and that’s not her side at all,” Rapier said.
Rebekah Kinner’s “biggest concern is to represent her daughter’s best interest,” Rapier said. He acknowledged it’s unusual for a defendant to testify before a grand jury, “but from my conversations with her, she is not concerned about self-preservation.”
The trial date for Rebekah Kinner is set for April 4, while Bradley Young will stand trial on April 25 in Butler County Common Pleas Court.
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