Father of the year material

Hey, dumbass, did it ever occur to you to, you know, call a doctor? No, I guess not.

A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend's feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newspaper reported on Friday.

Derrick Hardy faces charges of criminal negligence and assaulting the infant, who was rescued when her mother came home, the Charlottetown Guardian said.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said the mother found the girl crammed into the freezer alongside ice cubes and hamburger meat. Hardy said he had left the door ajar but the mother said it had been closed when she returned.

He told a court in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island on Thursday the child had only been in the freezer for about 40 seconds.

I don't care if she was in the freezer for ten seconds. You just don't put a human being in a freezer at all. Well, unless that human being is dead, and you're a coroner. I guess you could make an exception there. But the live baby, not so much.

Hardy, 21, who admitted to police that he had no real parenting skills to deal with a sick child, said he had noticed the girl was very hot and put a cool cloth on her face, but this had no effect. [emphasis mine]

I don't think he has the parenting skills to deal with a healthy goldfish, much less a sick child.

Update: Great minds think alike, apparently.