ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA)— A person was arrested after he allegedly abused and killed his 3-month-old daughter, the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced.
Deputies responded to a name on April 30 with regard to an unresponsive 3-month-old child.
Deputies got here involved with Orange County Hearth Rescue, who have been performing CPR on the infant earlier than taking her to a close-by hospital.
Darius Nichols, 20, informed investigators he left the infant on the sofa and went to the lavatory.
When Nichols got here again to test on the infant, she was on the ground and unresponsive, in keeping with the arrest affidavit.
Deputies mentioned an post-mortem was carried out and confirmed the infant’s cranium was fractured in quite a few locations. She additionally had a number of therapeutic rib fractures from earlier incidents.
In line with the arrest affidavit, many of the accidents that have been noticed on the post-mortem have been inconsistent with the data that was supplied by Nichols.
“In her brief life, child Nova suffered horrific abuse and trauma. She is resting peacefully now, and our detectives will get justice for child Nova,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a submit on Fb.
Nichols was charged with first-degree homicide and aggravated little one abuse, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
