Authorities: Father on parole and house arrest when infant daughter killed
NAUGATUCK — Christopher Francisquini was reported to be compliant with the terms of his release on bond in two pending criminal cases just four days before police said he dismembered his 11-monthold daughter at his Millville Avenue home Friday morning, court records show. Francisquini, 31, is now the subject of an intense manhunt by local, state and federal authorities who are looking to serve an arrest warrant, charging him with murder with special circumstances and risk of injury to a child in the killing of his daughter, Camilla Francisquini.
Francisquini will be held on $5 million bond when he is captured and will face at least another $450,000 bond set by a Milford and a Bridgeport Superior Court judges after he failed to show up in court Monday and Tuesday. He also violated the conditions of his release by cutting off his electronic tracking device and allegedly killing his daughter, court documents show. His re-arrest on failure to appear charges was ordered by both judges.
In the months leading up to the child’s homicide, Francisquini was free after posting a total of $375,000 bond in four court cases in Milford and Bridgeport courts connected with his arrest on Nov. 4 and 5, 2021 on carjacking, robbery and other charges. He was also on special parole for a 2012 first-degree assault conviction, court documents state.
Francisquini and the mother of the child had an argument Friday morning in Waterbury, where he destroyed his cellphone and removed a court-ordered electronic monitoring device, Naugatuck police said.
His 11-month-old is believed to have already been killed when the argument occurred and the child’s mother was unaware of her death during the dispute, Naugatuck Police Chief Colin McAllister said Monday during a news conference.
McAllister said the child’s mother then went to the Millville Avenue home, but he declined to say whether the woman
was the person who found the child and called 911.
Based on the condition of the child’s body, “we can clearly rule out this was an accident, this was an intentional act,” McAllister said.
The child died from neck compression and stab wounds, according to the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
McAllister said the child was found dismembered when officers arrived around 11:30 a.m. Friday.
Just four days earlier, probation officials informed a Milford Superior Court judge that Francisquini was compliant with the terms of his release and he was granted a reprieve from house arrest on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, court records show.
Francisquini had also received a positive report in September from probation officials who oversee his release on bond. His probation officer indicated Francisquini was seeking mental health treatment at Griffin Hospital and was in compliance with home confinement, court documents showed.
Francisquini was also in compliance with his special parole, which he was required to be on until June 2032 as part of the 2012 conviction, state Department of Correction officials said.
After being released on supervised parole in 2020, Francisquini was arrested again in November 2021 for a carjacking at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in West Haven, according to a police incident report.
While in custody on the carjacking charges, Francisquini assaulted correction officers while trying to escape from a detention facility the day after his
arrest, according to an incident report. At that point, Francisquini had served all but seven months of his 10-year prison sentence, state Department of Correction documents show.
He was remanded back to prison to finish the entire 10 years while he was also in pretrial proceedings for the Milford and Bridgeport cases, DOC officials said. He was released from the 10-year sentence on June 20, but remained incarcerated on the pending cases until he bonded out on June 27, court and DOC records show.
According to the terms of his release on bond, Francisquini was under house arrest except for work and appointments that were pre-approved by his probation officer. He was also required to wear electronic monitoring, required to not rack up any more arrests and required to stay away from the carjacking victim, court documents said.
He had been in compliance with the conditions of release for the four pending court cases up until Friday, court records show.
Now Naugatuck police are warning anyone who may be helping Francisquini to avoid capture that they could be in grave danger and the FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest and conviction.
Anyone with information about Francisquini’s whereabouts can contact Naugatuck Police at 203729-5221 or the department’s confidential tip line at 203-720-1010.