A black man has pled guilty to putting a pillow over his infant son and killing him because he wouldn't stop crying

African-American Eric Griffin had pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter as part of a plea deal with Burlington County prosecutors. County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi says that Griffin put a pillow over the face of his 4-week-old son, Nyir Griffin, in November 2010 after the child wouldn't stop crying. He removed the pillow when the infant stopped making noise, but soon realized that the boy was no longer breathing and left the home. The infant's maternal grandmother later found the infant unresponsive and he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.