Father guilty in daughter's death

AUBURN - An Auburn father pleaded guilty in Cayuga County Court Tuesday to causing his daughter's death by driving drunk and crashing the car she was ejected from in exchange for a promise he will be sentenced to five to 10 years in state prison.

Jerry Lamphere, 31, currently held in Cayuga County Jail and with a last known address of 57 West St., Auburn, told Cayuga County Surrogate Judge Mark Fandrich three times that “Yes, sir,” he was guilty of the felony of second-degree manslaughter and the misdemeanors of endangering the welfare of a child and driving while intoxicated.

Brooke Lamphere, 4, was not in a child seat when she died in the July 21 one-car crash on Potter Road in Throop. Brooke was partially ejected through the rear window and suffered deadly trauma to her body. Another older child passenger who was in the backseat of Lamphere's Dodge with Brooke was not seriously injured when Lamphere's car entered a ditch on the west side of Potter Road, flipped over and came to rest on its wheels.