Father accused of killing his three-year-old son ‘because his teenage girlfriend didn’t like children

She did not want to share him with his 3-year-old from a previous relationship; he worried she would leave him.
The roiling emotions proved deadly for little Brendan Link Creato, a Camden County prosecutor told a judge Tuesday, seeking high bail for the boy’s father, who had reported him missing and now is charged with his murder.
Weeks before Brendan’s pajama-clad body was found in Haddon Township woods, David “D.J.” Creato Jr. was distraught and arguing with his 17-year-old girlfriend to keep her from leaving him, Assistant Prosecutor Christine Shah said.

The girlfriend, a juvenile whom Shah did not name but who has been identified as Julia Spensky, had warned Creato she disliked children and resented his devotion to the boy. Shah said authorities learned of the fraught relationship mostly from the couple’s numerous text messages and online postings.
“She issued an ultimatum to him,” Shah said Tuesday after Creato, charged with the Oct. 13 murder of his son, was brought into a Camden courtroom for his first appearance.
Shah said medical examiners determined the boy died of “homicidal violence.” Superior Court Judge Edward McBride set bail at $750,000 – lower than the $1 million sought by Shah, but higher than the $250,000 a defense attorney said might be appropriate.