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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - In this photo, a baby girl reaches for flowers. In another, she builds with blocks. In yet another, she plays with the dog. Peter Van Der Linde smiled at the old snapshots of his only child, Kirsten, now grown and sitting a few feet away. They are memories he might have recreated with Kirsten's own baby daughter.
Instead, the 69-year-old Van Der Linde was on the witness stand this March day, and Kirsten was on trial for violently killing her baby, just before grandfather and granddaughter were to meet for the first time.
Another baby photo presented at the trial was taken by police; it showed 7-month-old Melissa after she had been swung by her mother headfirst into a sidewalk, again and again.
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