MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – A two-year-old boy was pronounced lifeless Monday morning after being disciplined with a braided canine toy, in response to the Memphis Police Department.
The mom’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Anthony Andrews, is now going through youngster abuse costs.
At 5:49 a.m. Monday, first responders had been dispatched to a home on Margot Street within the Oakville neighborhood for a two-year-old boy who was discovered unresponsive.
According to Memphis police, the kid wasn’t respiration, was bleeding from the mouth, and had bruises throughout his physique.
Paramedics began CPR and rushed the boy to a neighborhood hospital, however he didn’t survive.
Meanwhile, on the home, officers spoke with the kid’s mom and Andrews, her boyfriend.
The sufferer’s mom instructed police that she final noticed her son in good well being round 11:15 p.m. Sunday.
She mentioned she went to sleep and Andrews took over watching her son.
She instructed police that Andrews was recognized to self-discipline her youngster and added she had seen him use a belt or braided canine toy to strike him earlier than.
She mentioned she lately seen “excess bruising and wounds” on her youngster, however when she questioned Andrews about it, he instructed her the two-year-old had “fallen out of bed.”
Andrews admitted to investigators that he struck the two-year-old “seven to eight times” with a braided canine toy within the again, face, and buttocks Monday morning and that just a few weeks beforehand, he hit the kid “harder than [he] should” with a belt.
Police say he additionally admitted to slapping the toddler “at least once or twice” Monday morning earlier than shoving him right into a nook. Andrews mentioned he then positioned the two-year-old again in mattress.
He mentioned the boy fell out of the mattress a number of minutes later, and that’s when Andrews seen he was unresponsive.
Andrews is charged with aggravated youngster abuse and aggravated youngster neglect.
No bond info is out there right now.
He is due in courtroom Tuesday morning.
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