Army Medic Christopher Conway Charged In Rape, Murder Of Infant Daughter

A United States Army combat medic was charged and arrested Wednesday in connection with raping and murdering one of his 9-month-old twin daughters. Police were called by a family at Cindy Jo Court, Clarksville, Tennessee as they helped to perform CPR on the infant, who had been strangled and raped, according to the Leaf Chronicle.

The girl’s father was identified as Christopher Paul Conway, a 22-year-old army combat medic stationed at Fort Campbell, along the Kentucky-Tennessee border. Conway was charged with aggravated child rape and homicide. His other daughter was removed from the home and is currently in state custody.

According to police spokesperson Jim Knoll, the girl was taken to Tennova Health Care, Tennessee, where she was pronounced dead because of severe injuries. The arrest warrant specified she had injuries that were consistent with being raped.

"This affects so many people that aren't direct family. It makes people hold their kids a little bit closer. It makes everybody think; how could somebody be such a monster? We can't answer those questions,” Knoll said.

Conway’s arrest warrant also specified how the infant was sexually assaulted and then strangled with a cord wrapped around her neck, which resulted in her death. Conway reportedly admitted to raping and killing his daughter and was booked into the Montgomery County jail on a $100,000 bond for the rape charge, ABC-affiliated television station WKRN-TV reported. However, according to a report in the Leaf Chronicle, Judge Ray Grimes denied a bond on the homicide charge, stating the case could result in a death penalty.

According to Conway's Facebook page, he's an Army Medic and a married father of twin daughters. The Army also confirmed 22-year-old Conway is a combat medic specialist stationed at Ft. Campbell. There were no reports about Conway’s wife or her whereabouts.

His neighbors denied knowing Conway or his family well and mentioned the family had moved into the neighborhood just a few months ago.

"He's military so he comes and goes. Other than that I don't talk to him," Billy Reynolds said. "He was quiet. He was a nice man. Other than that didn't hear much of them. You didn't hear from him or his wife at all."

Another neighbor named Deborah Kendall also denied knowing the family but tears streamed down her face while she recounted the incident.

"Just as a parent and grandmother, it's something unbelievable what people can do to their own child. It just breaks my heart what he did to her. I was just looking at his Facebook page. It looks like those babies had a hard time when they first came to life and for him to do that to his own daughter," Kendall told Fox-affiliated television, Fox17 News.

WKRN quoted another neighbor, who chose to stay anonymous, saying when her husband informed her about what happened, she thought he must be lying. “… and I looked it up and I actually live down the street that way, so I wanted to see how close this was to our house because of my little girl. I have a little girl. It is sickening,” she said.