A status conference is scheduled for Westmoreland County Court today for Clayton Mibroda, a 31-year-old Bolivar man who is serving 15 to 30 years in state prison for third degree murder. Mibroda was convicted in 2013 of killing his 20-day-old daughter, Natalee Kay Mibroda, but while admitting he “dropped” the infant, he has claimed all along that the baby’s mother, Kayla Lichtenfels, is to blame for the baby’s death.
He appealed his conviction to state Superior Court and was turned down, but has filed a motion for post-conviction relief, and despite the court twice signaling that it intends to deny the motion, he continues to pursue it.
The baby’s grandmother, Vickie Fetterman, lives in Indiana County and had temporary custody of Natalee after her birth. The infant was born addicted to opioids due to drug abuse by both parents, and Fetterman last year was denied by a U.S. Appeals Court as she sought to sue the Westmoreland County Childrens Bureau for ordering Natalee to be returned to her parents. The court ruled that the law shields the agency from a lawsuit and that Fetterman waited too long to file it.
Clayton Mibroda is serving his sentence at SCI Green County in Waynesburg.
