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Burly ex-Coast Guardsman Russell Tongay, 39. was hustled from Miami to the Florida state pen to start a ten-year manslaughter stretch. His unsavory crime: causing the death of his daughter. "Aqua-tot" Kathy Tongay, 5, who died in convulsions soon after Aquapop Tongay made her leap from a 33-ft. diving tower into a Miami Beach pool...
...Charged with second-degree murder in the death of his five-year-old daughter, Russell Tongay maintained her injuries were sustained when...
Your May 18 story on the Tongay case vividly illustrates the violent force of one man's ambition. Tongay is no father, but a hardened man, driven by a personal aspiration and downright selfishness, who tried desperately to make precision machines out of his two scrawny but rugged youngsters...
Misfortune halted Russ's plans for Russ Jr. almost before they had begun: the baby died from multiple brain hemorrhages at 18 months. An Army doctor testified at the inquest that he had heard an ugly little story from Russ's blonde wife that Tongay had been trying to teach the baby to float in the bathtub and had slapped him on the head because he did not obey. But Russ's wife testified that the baby was bruised in a fall down the stairs, and no charges were filed...
...Shower. Mrs. Tongay eventually presented Russ with two more babies-another Russell Jr., who was nicknamed "Bubba," and, 18 months later, a girl whom they named Kathy. Russ began training them to swim before they could walk. He sprinkled water in their faces from the time of their first baths, turned showers on them at six months to teach them proper aquatic breathing. Kathy swam 20 feet under water when she was only ten months old. At 17 months the Tongay children paddled a quarter of a mile a day; at two years each did five miles...