Police in Texas have arrested a man for allegedly killing his 2-year-old stepdaughter because she kept crying during the U.S.-Ghana World Cup game on Saturday. The details that police allege are horrific.
Police say Hector Castro, 28, called firefighters to his apartment because the girl swallowed a screw. But police say the screw was jammed down the throat of the girl to make the death look like an accident, and that she died because she was beaten and suffocated. “There are no words for this,” McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez told the Monitor. “It makes you want to think about doing lots of things to this guy, but he will face the criminal justice system just like everybody else.”
Rodriguez said Castro is an illegal immigrant and that he gave investigators a confession that implicated himself in the girl’s death. Several of the girl’s ribs were cracked, police said. They haven’t released the name of the child. Castro was to be arraigned today, and is to face a capital murder charge.
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