The father of a baby girl who died after she was found submerged in a tub in a Milford hotel room in August has now been charged with murder. The investigation started on Aug. 21 when a staff member at the Mayflower Motel went into a room to clean it and found a baby submerged in a child’s bathing tub,

The father arrested in connection to the drowning death of an infant in a motel has had his charges upgraded to include murder, officials said. Court officials said Tuesday that Dale Kirkland, 31, is charged with murder,

A Connecticut dad is charged with killing his 3-month-old daughter, who was found in a bathtub by a motel cleaning crew.

Charges have been upgraded for a man after a baby found in a Milford motel’s bathtub died in August. Dale Kirkland had previously been charged with risk of injury to a minor and cruelty to persons in connection to the infant’s death.