Andrew Kammerer: Goshen Township Man Gets 19 to 24.5 Years After Admitting He Killed His 4-Month-Old Daughter and Hurt Her Twin

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A Clermont County judge has handed down a prison term of 19 to 24.5 years to a Goshen Township man who admitted to killing one of his four-month-old twin daughters and seriously harming the other.

Andrew Kammerer, 34, entered guilty pleas on July 31, 2025 to involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault and obstructing justice bringing an end to the criminal case against him. 



According to police reports, the investigation began in November 2024, when Kammerer called 911 for help.

He reported that one of his infant daughters had fallen from a changing table and that she was having trouble breathing, as seen in the bodycam footage below. 

He told authorities he performed CPR until medics arrived, but sadly the baby, later identified as Evelyn, died. 

However, medical experts quickly cast doubt on his account, after autopsy results showed that the injuries Evelyn sustained were not consistent with an accidental fall, but looked like the result of physical abuse.

According to Assistant Clermont County Prosecutor Lara Baron-Allen, doctors uncovered that Evelyn had been subjected to “an extraordinarily violent attack.” 

The child reportedly suffered brain damage along with retinal and optic nerve hemorrhages, bleeding in her larynx and trachea. 

She also suffered fractures to the front and back of her ribs, a liver laceration that caused major internal bleeding, and hemorrhaging around her spinal cord.

After Evelyn’s death, Goshen Township police had the surviving twin examined by a physician. 

That evaluation revealed the second girl had multiple rib fractures that were already in the process of healing, injuries that had never been reported to authorities.


Andrew Kammerer at his sentencing 


After medical experts made the chilling discovery, Kammerer was arrested two days after baby Evelyn passed. 

Prosecutors had originally charged him with 10 counts, including aggravated murder and child endangering, but those were dismissed as part of the plea agreement. 

Also, Clermont County Common Pleas Judge Kevin Miles ordered the sentences for the charges he was convicted of to run consecutively, as per Fox 19 News.

During his sentencing, Kammerer gave a tearful statement before the court, with many family members and friends seated in the pews behind him, several of them crying as he spoke 

“I will never be able to teach them, I will never be able to learn from them or absorb their youth, and to share the information I’ve learned over the time in my life,” he said.

However, Judge Miles was not moved. He said the defendant’s words were “unconvincing” and pointed out that while Kammerer pleaded guilty, his comments came across as “very self-centered and lack genuine insight as to the harm you caused.” 

The judge also raised concerns about whether Kammerer might offend again, noting that he had a prior criminal record and that being the father of the victims actually made him more likely to hurt children he is not related to.

The mother of the twins, 32-year-old Danielle Rheude, was indicted on charges of complicity to murder and child endangering for her alleged role in what happened. 

She was later sentenced to at least five years in prison following her guilty plea to child endangering counts, but officials have not disclosed exactly what she is accused of doing, or what role she played in Evelyn's death. 

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