‘Humiliated’ dad killed daughter for ‘asking him to watch her children too often’

A 64-year-old man in Indiana is likely to spend the remainder of his days behind bars for killing his own daughter, allegedly fatally stabbing her because he felt “humiliated” because she constantly left her children with him.

Knox County Circuit Judge Monica Gilmore on Monday ordered Fritzner Antoine to serve 60 years in a state correctional facility for the horrific slaying of Sterline Antoine Joseph, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Knox County Prosecutor’s Office, officers with the Vincennes Police Department at about 7 a.m. on June 24, 2023, responded to a call regarding a possible stabbing at a home in the 1400 block of Audubon Road, which is about 115 miles southwest of Indianapolis.

Upon arriving at the scene, first responders found a 30-year-old woman — later identified as Joseph — suffering from what appeared to be multiple stab wounds, Terre Haute NBC affiliate WTWO reported. She was pronounced dead on the scene.

Joseph’s two children were at the residence and “heard their mother’s screams as she was killed by her father (their grandfather),” according to prosecutors.

Antoine readily confessed to the killing, telling investigators his daughter had “disrespected him” by “asking him to watch her children too often.”

“Antoine stated that Victim 1 ‘humiliated’ him and continually left her children with him. Antoine stated that he selected a ‘gold’ ‘table knife’ from near the sink in the residence,” police wrote in a probable cause affidavit. “Antoine stated that he intended to ‘flog’ Victim 1 for being disrespectful to him, he had the knife in his hand, so he ‘did it.’”