MIDDLETOWN — Denise Moreno was awakened Sunday night by a frightening phone call from her son Tony, who asked her to come to the Arrigoni Bridge. 
 
 She could hear her 7-month-old grandson, Aaden, crying. Tony told her to come collect a phone with pictures of the baby, and to "just tell everyone I'm sorry." 
 
 Denise Moreno got in the car with her other son, Aaron, and raced desperately to the bridge as she called 911, according to court records released Wednesday. Once on the bridge, they saw Tony standing alone near the railing, and within seconds two police officers arrived. 
 
 One of the officers shouted to Tony, telling him to stop, but he kept walking. He put both hands onto the bridge railing and hurled himself into the Connecticut River below. 
 
 The officers and Denise Moreno ran to a nearby stroller, but there was no sign of Aaden. In a hospital room interview after he regained consciousness Tuesday, Tony told police he had already thrown the baby from the bridge. 
 
 Moreno's plunge from the Arrigoni Bridge began a grim, two-day search that ended when a canoeist found the infant's body about a mile from the East Haddam Swing Bridge across the Connecticut River. 
 
 Tony Moreno, 21, was arraigned Wednesday in a bed at Hartford Hospital on charges of murder and murder with special circumstances, and in a separate but related case, on two counts of violation of a restraining order. 
 
 He is being held on suicide watch in a medical unit of the state Department of Correction with bail set at $2.1 million, police said. 
 
 Tony Moreno Middletown Police Department Tony Moreno, charged with the murder of his 7-month-old son. Tony Moreno, charged with the murder of his 7-month-old son. (Middletown Police Department) (Middletown Police Department) 
 
 Middletown police spokeswoman Lt. Heather Desmond said the murder with special circumstances charge is added when a victim is younger than 16. The two violation of a restraining order charges stem from a June 25 incident, Desmond said. 
 
 Middletown police officers applied for an arrest warrant for the violation of a restraining order charges on the day Adrianne Oyola, Aaden's mother, told police Moreno had violated a temporary restraining order by contacting her, Desmond said. The warrant applications were updated with additional information, Desmond said, and were signed by Judge Leo Diana on Monday as crews were searching the river. 
 
 "There was contact," Desmond said. "There was supposed to be no contact with the family or with Aaden." 
 
 An arrest warrant affidavit released Wednesday gives the first full account of the police investigation into the baby's disappearance. 
 
 'He's Dead' 
 
 According to the warrant, Oyola told police she argued with Moreno Sunday about when he was going to return Aaden. 
 
 The two had recently signed a 50-50 custody agreement on the advice of a family court judge who denied Oyola's application for a permanent restraining order on June 29. Oyola declined an interview request from The Courant on Wednesday. 
 
 According to the arrest warrant, Oyola and Moreno exchanged text messages just minutes before police say Moreno threw Aaden into the river. 
 
 In the text messages, Moreno indicated he would not be bringing Aaden back to Oyola. He wrote: "Enjoy your new life without us." Oyola pleaded with him not to take Aaden from her. 
 
 In chilling text messages that followed at 11:45 p.m., Oyola asked: "Where's Aaden?" 
 
 Moreno wrote back in two messages: "He's dead. 
 
 "And soon I will be too." 
 
 Oyola sent a series of frantic text messages back, but Moreno never answered. She sent the last of the messages to Moreno at about the same time police and his mother watched him disappear over the edge of the bridge. 
 
 Later, in the interview with police in the hospital, officers asked Moreno why he threw his child into the river. Moreno gave only a vague response. 
 
 Moreno and Oyola apparently had a strained relationship. Judge Edward Domnarski granted a temporary restraining order against Moreno on June 17 after Oyola wrote in an application that she feared for her child's and her own safety. She wrote that the two were happy but after she became pregnant "everything changed." 
 
 "He has told me he could make my son disappear any time of the day," she wrote. "He told me how he could make me disappear, told me how he could kill me. I sometimes am scared to sleep. He told me he would put me in the ground and put something on me to make me disintegrate faster." 
 
 Judge Barry C. Pinkus told Oyola and Moreno that their testimony at a June 29 hearing showed there was "chaos" in their relationship but that Moreno was not an "imminent" threat, transcripts obtained by The Courant indicate. 
 
 "I'm just not convinced that there's a continuous threat of present physical pain or physical injury," Pinkus said at the hearing. "I think the two of you don't have a good relationship." 
 
 With a temporary restraining order terminated, the judge advised the former couple to file a custody application that sorted out a parental rights agreement and child support for Aaden. 
 
 Advocates have questioned the decision by Pinkus to deny the permanent restraining order. 
 
 Karen Jarmoc, director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said Wednesday that her organization and other advocates have long been asking for increased domestic violence training for judges. 
 
 "What occurred in Middletown with this particular case is not outside of what we hear from victims and advocates across the state in other cases who are going through the judicial system for protection," Jarmoc said. 
 
 She said she is frustrated that judges often seem to need proof of actual violence and disregard "the threat of violence." 
 
 "It's the little things. It's about power and control and the little things abusers do to exert control," Jarmoc said. "She's saying that she's trying to walk away with the baby and he is physically blocking her. [Pinkus] is not viewing that as a credible threat when in fact that's a very serious circumstance." 
 
 Pinkus has declined to comment on his decision. 
 
 On Wednesday, Chief Court Administrator Patrick L. Carroll III issued a statement, saying: "While it would be inappropriate for me to comment directly on Judge Pinkus' ruling, I believe that it is representative of the difficult decisions that judges must make each and every day. These discretionary decisions are made after an assessment of the evidence that is presented and in accordance with applicable state law. Yet even with a deliberative process, it is impossible for judges to predict the future with certainty." ||||| MIDDLETOWN–The arrest warrant charging Tony Moreno with murder in the death of his son, Aaden, shows a turbulent relationship between him and the 7-month-old’s mother in the minutes, days, weeks and months leading up to Tony’s suicide attempt and Aaden’s death. 
 
 Adrianne Oyola, Aaden’s mother, told officers when they interviewed her following the incident that she had lived with Tony, his mother and his brother from February 2013 to June 17, 2015, and that in the months leading up to her moving out the couple was not getting along. 
 
 Court documents show Oyola feared something like this would happen. She applied for a restraining order on June 17 against Moreno saying, “He has told me he could make my son disappear anytime of the day.” 
 
 For more on the death of baby Aaden and the case against his father, click here. 
 
 She also told the court that a month or so before Aaden died, Tony pushed her off of a bed, which caused her to fracture her ankle, and in April Tony was watching Aaden and left him alone on a bed upstairs, and then left the house. Moreno said he didn’t purposely push her off the bed, but she was sitting there when he straightened his legs and then she was pushed off. He says she got up and started kicking things around the room “like a 3-year-old.” 
 
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 Oyola said she decided to move out on the day of her graduation from high school, June 16, after she says Tony hid her newly purchased graduation dress. She said that at that point she applied for and received a temporary restraining order against Tony, and that she had sole custody of Aaden. She also said the restraining order wasn't extended by the judge. 
 
 You can read the entire transcript from the Moreno restraining order hearing here. 
 
 Since the restraining order wasn't continued, Oyola and Moreno drew up their own custody agreement. She said she wanted to change something about the agreement, and Tony agreed to talk about it. When she called on July 5 at 8 p.m. Tony was very upset, and she doesn't know why. He demanded to know where she was. 
 
 A few hours later the two text messaged back and forth for just under 25 minutes before Moreno says he threw Aaden into the river and before he then jumped. 
 
 Here are the text messages exactly as they were sent. "A" refers to Adrianne, and "T" refers to Tony. They have not been edited. 
 
 11:18 T to A: I really need to talk to you 
 
 11:21 A to T: I was trying to talk to my friend. She just broke up with her boyfriend and wanted to talk to me Sorry I'm trying to be a good friend 
 
 11:21 T to A: Well I'm sorry there was a problem regarding our son 
 
 11:22 A to T: What's going on. 
 
 11:23 A to T: ?! 
 
 11:23 A to T: Why didn't you say that instead of saying I need to talk to you. 
 
 11:23 T to A: Clearly nothing that matters to you. And why would I say I NEED to talk to you if it wasn't important 
 
 11:24 A to T: What was the matter? 
 
 11:26 T to A: Don't worry, you'll see later. Just remember I tried contact you first 
 
 11:26 A to T: Just tell me! 
 
 11:27 A to T: Are you in the hospital? 
 
 11:29 T to A: No, and again it doesn't matter now. Just remember you wanted to play games and lie and be childish when I tried to reach out 
 
 11:30 A to T: Okay Tony. Good night I'll talk to you tomorrow or Tuesday 
 
 11:30 T to A: No you won't 
 
 11:30 A to T: What do you mean no?! 
 
 11:32 T to A: You won't talk to me tomorrow or any other day 
 
 11:33 A to T: Tuesday is my day. So yes I'll text you in the morning to see when you'll be dropping off Aaden 
 
 11:33 T to A: I won't be 
 
 11:33: A to T: Tuesday is my day 
 
 11:34 T to A: There is no more days Adrienne 
 
 11:34 A to T: Wtf you mean?! 
 
 11:35 T to A: Enjoy your new life without us 
 
 11:35 A to T: You can't just decide not to bring him back Tony 
 
 11:37 A to T: It says in the agreement that Tuesday is my day 
 
 11:38 A to T: You can't just not bring him! 
 
 11:39 A to T: Tony!!!! 
 
 11:41 A to T: Seriously. Don't play around like that. Please don't try and take him from me!!!! 
 
 11:41 T to A: You tried to take him away from me. You failed. I didn't 
 
 11:42 T to A: Enjoy your life without us now 
 
 11:42 A to T: Where are you?! 
 
 11:43 A to T: Tony I'm trying to make this co parent thing work! 
 
 11:44 T to A: Your not a parent anymore 
 
 11:44 A to T: I'm trying to get along with you for Aaden and your guns do this?! 
 
 11:44 A to T: You can't just up and leave with Aaden 
 
 11:45 A to T: Where are you! 
 
 11:45 A to T: Where's Aaden? 
 
 11:45 T to A: He's dead 
 
 11:45 T to A: And soon I will be too 
 
 11:45 A to T: Don't day that!!!! 
 
 11:46 A to T: Your playing right now! Please tell me your kidding!!!!!!!! 
 
 11:48 A to T: Your ****** kidding me!!!!!! 
 
 11:49 A to T: Don't ******* talk like that 
 
 11:49 A to T: You couldn't kill your own son! 
 
 11:50 A to T: Tony 
 
 11:52 A to T: Please don't hurt Aaden 
 
 11:53 A to T: Please!!!!!!!! 
 
 A Change.org petition has been launched to have "Aaden's Voice" made a law. "To have a voice for small children in Protective orders in courts to be heard," the petition said. ||||| MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — A man whose infant son was found dead in the Connecticut River admitted tossing the boy from a bridge before jumping into the water below, police said Wednesday. 
 
 CORRECTS AGE OF MORENO TO 21 FROM 22 AND CLARIFIES HE TOSSED 7-MONTH-OLD SON INSTEAD OF JUMPED WITH - This booking photo released Wednesday, July 8, 2015, by the Middletown, Conn., Police Department shows... (Associated Press) 
 
 Tony Moreno was charged with murder in the death of 7-month-old Aaden Moreno. 
 
 Moreno exchanged angry text messages with the infant's increasingly frantic mother in the minutes before he jumped Sunday near midnight, according to court filings. "Enjoy your new life without us," Moreno wrote before texting, "He's dead." 
 
 Moreno, 21, was arraigned at Hartford Hospital, where he was treated after firefighters rescued him. His bail was set at $2 million. Moreno's public defender did not immediately return a call seeking comment. 
 
 Police went to the Arrigoni Bridge in Middletown on Sunday night after Moreno's mother called 911 to report that her son had called her from the bridge with his son and said he was going to jump. After officers arrived, they saw Moreno jump and found an empty baby stroller, but did not see the infant. 
 
 The body of Aaden Moreno was found Tuesday night near a bridge in East Haddam, south of where his father jumped, after an extensive search involving dive teams and helicopters. 
 
 Police said Moreno confessed on Monday after initially refusing to speak with a detective. But after the officer said police needed help finding the boy to give him a proper funeral, Moreno nodded yes when asked if he had dropped his son and started to cry, according to police documents. 
 
 The officer said he used a basketball analogy to ask how far the boy was thrown from the bridge's railing. 
 
 "Tony said that it was more like a free throw distance from the railing," the officer said. 
 
 The boy's mother, Adrianne Oyola, 19, filed for a restraining order last month against Moreno amid a bitter custody dispute. She said in the application that Moreno "has told me he could make my son disappear any time of the day. He told me how he could me disappear." 
 
 Superior Court Judge Barry Pinkus denied the request for a permanent restraining order, saying at a hearing on June 29 that the couple had a chaotic relationship but he was not convinced there was a "continuous threat" of physical injury. 
 
 Chief Court Administrator Patrick L. Carroll III said he would not comment directly on Pinkus' ruling but noted it reflects the difficult decisions that judges must make each day. He said even with a thorough assessment of the evidence, "it is impossible for judges to predict the future with certainty." 
 
 Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other officials attended a community vigil for the baby in Middletown on Wednesday night. People lit candles outside the South Green gazebo, and left stuffed animals and balloons. 
 
 The Middletown Press reports that Aaden's aunt read a letter prepared by his mother which said, "I lost my son, but I gained a guardian angel." 
 
 Mayor Daniel Drew told the gathering at South Congregational Church, "It's beyond our ability to express the magnitude of this loss or even to understand it." ||||| MIDDLETOWN–The arrest warrant charging Tony Moreno with murder in the death of his son, Aaden, shows a turbulent relationship between him and the 7-month-old’s mother in the minutes, days, weeks and months leading up to Tony’s suicide attempt and Aaden’s death. 
 
 Adrianne Oyola, Aaden’s mother, told officers when they interviewed her following the incident that she had lived with Tony, his mother and his brother from February 2013 to June 17, 2015, and that in the months leading up to her moving out the couple was not getting along. 
 
 Court documents show Oyola feared something like this would happen. She applied for a restraining order on June 17 against Moreno saying, “He has told me he could make my son disappear anytime of the day.” 
 
 For more on the death of baby Aaden and the case against his father, click here. 
 
 She also told the court that a month or so before Aaden died, Tony pushed her off of a bed, which caused her to fracture her ankle, and in April Tony was watching Aaden and left him alone on a bed upstairs, and then left the house. Moreno said he didn’t purposely push her off the bed, but she was sitting there when he straightened his legs and then she was pushed off. He says she got up and started kicking things around the room “like a 3-year-old.” 
 
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 Oyola said she decided to move out on the day of her graduation from high school, June 16, after she says Tony hid her newly purchased graduation dress. She said that at that point she applied for and received a temporary restraining order against Tony, and that she had sole custody of Aaden. She also said the restraining order wasn't extended by the judge. 
 
 You can read the entire transcript from the Moreno restraining order hearing here. 
 
 Since the restraining order wasn't continued, Oyola and Moreno drew up their own custody agreement. She said she wanted to change something about the agreement, and Tony agreed to talk about it. When she called on July 5 at 8 p.m. Tony was very upset, and she doesn't know why. He demanded to know where she was. 
 
 A few hours later the two text messaged back and forth for just under 25 minutes before Moreno says he threw Aaden into the river and before he then jumped. 
 
 Here are the text messages exactly as they were sent. "A" refers to Adrianne, and "T" refers to Tony. They have not been edited. 
 
 11:18 T to A: I really need to talk to you 
 
 11:21 A to T: I was trying to talk to my friend. She just broke up with her boyfriend and wanted to talk to me Sorry I'm trying to be a good friend 
 
 11:21 T to A: Well I'm sorry there was a problem regarding our son 
 
 11:22 A to T: What's going on. 
 
 11:23 A to T: ?! 
 
 11:23 A to T: Why didn't you say that instead of saying I need to talk to you. 
 
 11:23 T to A: Clearly nothing that matters to you. And why would I say I NEED to talk to you if it wasn't important 
 
 11:24 A to T: What was the matter? 
 
 11:26 T to A: Don't worry, you'll see later. Just remember I tried contact you first 
 
 11:26 A to T: Just tell me! 
 
 11:27 A to T: Are you in the hospital? 
 
 11:29 T to A: No, and again it doesn't matter now. Just remember you wanted to play games and lie and be childish when I tried to reach out 
 
 11:30 A to T: Okay Tony. Good night I'll talk to you tomorrow or Tuesday 
 
 11:30 T to A: No you won't 
 
 11:30 A to T: What do you mean no?! 
 
 11:32 T to A: You won't talk to me tomorrow or any other day 
 
 11:33 A to T: Tuesday is my day. So yes I'll text you in the morning to see when you'll be dropping off Aaden 
 
 11:33 T to A: I won't be 
 
 11:33: A to T: Tuesday is my day 
 
 11:34 T to A: There is no more days Adrienne 
 
 11:34 A to T: Wtf you mean?! 
 
 11:35 T to A: Enjoy your new life without us 
 
 11:35 A to T: You can't just decide not to bring him back Tony 
 
 11:37 A to T: It says in the agreement that Tuesday is my day 
 
 11:38 A to T: You can't just not bring him! 
 
 11:39 A to T: Tony!!!! 
 
 11:41 A to T: Seriously. Don't play around like that. Please don't try and take him from me!!!! 
 
 11:41 T to A: You tried to take him away from me. You failed. I didn't 
 
 11:42 T to A: Enjoy your life without us now 
 
 11:42 A to T: Where are you?! 
 
 11:43 A to T: Tony I'm trying to make this co parent thing work! 
 
 11:44 T to A: Your not a parent anymore 
 
 11:44 A to T: I'm trying to get along with you for Aaden and your guns do this?! 
 
 11:44 A to T: You can't just up and leave with Aaden 
 
 11:45 A to T: Where are you! 
 
 11:45 A to T: Where's Aaden? 
 
 11:45 T to A: He's dead 
 
 11:45 T to A: And soon I will be too 
 
 11:45 A to T: Don't day that!!!! 
 
 11:46 A to T: Your playing right now! Please tell me your kidding!!!!!!!! 
 
 11:48 A to T: Your ****** kidding me!!!!!! 
 
 11:49 A to T: Don't ******* talk like that 
 
 11:49 A to T: You couldn't kill your own son! 
 
 11:50 A to T: Tony 
 
 11:52 A to T: Please don't hurt Aaden 
 
 11:53 A to T: Please!!!!!!!! 
 
 A Change.org petition has been launched to have "Aaden's Voice" made a law. "To have a voice for small children in Protective orders in courts to be heard," the petition said.
– The body of 7-month-old Aaden Moreno was found Tuesday night in the Connecticut River, and 21-year-old Tony Moreno, his father, has been charged in his murder after confessing to tossing him off a bridge, the AP reports. Before jumping into the water himself, Moreno made what he thought was a final phone call to his own mother, then sent a series of chilling text messages to the baby's 19-year-old mother, Adrianne Oyola, per the Hartford Courant. According to court records, Denise Moreno says she got a call from her son late Sunday asking her to come to the Arrigoni Bridge. She could hear Aaden crying in the background as her son said, "Just tell everyone I'm sorry." She called 911 and got to the bridge right before police did and just in time to see Tony jump, with an empty baby stroller nearby. Shortly before that, Oyola started getting heart-stopping texts from Moreno. "I'll text you in the morning to see when you'll be dropping off Aaden," she wrote shortly after 11:30pm, per Fox Connecticut, to which Moreno responded, "I won't be. … Enjoy your new life without us." Her texts to Moreno started to get more frantic. "Don't play around like that. Please don't try and take him from me!!!! … I'm trying to make this co parent thing work," to which she got the response: "Your [sic] not a parent anymore … He's dead … And soon I will be too." Meanwhile, a family court judge who had denied Oyola a permanent restraining order against Moreno is under fire for his decision, per the Courant. The director of a domestic violence coalition tells the paper she's frustrated to see yet another situation in which a judge insists on seeing proof of actual violence instead of taking seriously "the threat of violence." (See Fox Connecticut for an unedited transcript of the text messages.)