An Edison man told a judge in New Brunswick he killed his girlfriend during an argument last February, in which he kept choking her even after she had fallen to the floor.
He said he then took their 20-month-old daughter, drove her to Newark, Del., and abandoned her in the restroom of a gas station.
Dwayne Jackson, 26, entered his pleas to murder and endangering the welfare of a child Thursday in New Brunswick.
Jackson admitted choking Patricia Belizaire, 25, until she fell to the floor. He said the couple’s daughter, Hanna Belizaire Jackson, was at home during the attack on Feb. 21, 2010. Jackson said that after he killed Belizaire, he took the child to Newark, Del. where he abandoned her in a gas station restroom.
Returning to North Brunswick, Jackson then took Belizaire’s body to Ramapo, N.Y., where he dumped her in a park and set it on fire the morning of Feb. 22, 2010, according to an investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and North Brunswick Police.
Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said Jackson was charged in Delaware with first degree reckless endangering for leaving the child at the gas station on Feb. 21, 2010. He is pending those charges.
The child was identified after her photograph was published in the news media. She is in the custody of relatives.
Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Sheree Pitchford, who handled the case, said Jackson faces 30 years in prison without parole when sentenced May 19.
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