Father tries to kill his two-year-old son by crashing car at 75mph because ‘he is not man enough to raise a child’
Cocaine-crazed Nathan Weitzel left toddler Isaiah unbuckled before smashing into other vehicles on purpose
A DRUG-crazed dad who crashed his car at 75mph told cops he was trying to kill his toddler son - because he is "not man enough to raise a child".
Nathan Weitzel, 29, deliberately left two-year-old Isaiah unbuckled before ramming his car into other vehicles at high speed, police said.
Little Isaiah survived but has been left in a body cast with head and neck injuries and a broken leg.
Weitzel, who had two black eyes in his arrest mugshot, allegedly told investigators he took his son to play in a park while thinking of ways to kill him.
He said he then drove around looking for "a good place to crash the car and kill his son", court papers say.
He had put his own seat belt on but deliberately did not put his son in a child seat and left him unrestrained in the car.
The arrest document says he told investigators “the reason he wanted to kill Isaiah was because being a father was a big responsibility and he did not think he was man enough to raise a child.”
Weitzel was charged with attempted first-degree murder, child abuse, assault and drug possession following the crash in Centennial, near Denver, Colorado, at 11am on August 21.
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He was held in the Arapahoe County Jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond.
Isaiah's mum Nancy Lopez said: "He's in the place that he should be. He needs to be in jail for a long time."
She added: “I don’t understand why or how he could do something like this, but I’m hoping Isaiah recovers soon people pray for us and for my son to get better."
After the smash police found passersby cradling Isaiah, who was crying and “appeared to be fading in and out of consciousness.”
Witnesses Sam Schulte, who lives down the street, said: "I pulled the window off, and I pulled the door open, my neighbour got him out of the car and put him on the ground."
Cindy Rosa, who lives next door to where the car crashed, said she saw Weitzel "hitting the child...It looked like an elbow. It was horrifying."
Weitzel, who is separated from Isaiah's mother and has him at weekends, was still trapped in his car when emergency crews arrived.
As they worked to free him he removed a piece of glass stuck in his face and attempted to slit his own throat - then punched a firefighter who tried to stop him, the court papers say.
At hospital he thrashed around as doctors tried to stitch his wounds, and admitted he had used cocaine earlier that morning.
Isaiah is now out of hospital and back at home with his mum Nancy, who has been forced to give up work to look after him.
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