Robert S. Buskey Jr., 35, a former MMA fighter, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his five-year-old daughter, Charlotte Buskey. Prosecutors said she was starved and neglected for months, with her emaciated body found curled up in a small cot she had outgrown.
Police discovered that Charlotte’s bedroom had been locked from the outside, and boxes of food were piled outside her door. Her three-year-old brother was found alive but locked in a cage in the living room. The home was described as “deplorable.”
Buskey told officers, “I let my daughter die,” and admitted to a “depraved indifference to human life.” An autopsy revealed severe dehydration and no food in her system. He also pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child.
Buskey, who fought in MMA competitions in Albany, faces between 27 years and life in prison when sentenced on March 27.
