ST. CLOUD, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida dad was arrested almost a 12 months after his toddler drowned in a tub and died as he performed video video games, in accordance with an affidavit.
On April 21, 2024, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Workplace responded to a St. Cloud dwelling for a report of an toddler drowning.
Joshua Ruiz-Martinez, 42, the first caregiver of the kid, instructed authorities he positioned the kid in a tub, left her unattended, and returned to seek out her face down within the water, the affidavit particulars.
A Medical Examiner decided the infant’s explanation for demise as an unintentional drowning.
Ruiz-Martinez claimed to have left his daughter alone for roughly three minutes to organize her a bottle. Nevertheless, his gaming exercise confirmed he was away from the kid and gaming, the doc mentioned.
The affidavit additionally revealed that simply two hours after her demise, he despatched messages through Discord falsely telling his gaming buddies the kid drowned in a pool and that authorities by no means knowledgeable him of what occurred, including to “by no means go away your child with nobody.”
When officers confronted Ruiz-Martinez along with his conflicting statements and the timestamps, he emotionally replied, “I killed my daughter for a sport? Please inform me I didn’t kill my daughter for a sport.”
Ruiz-Martinez was arrested on Feb. 11, 2025, and is going through a cost of aggravated manslaughter of a kid. It stays unclear why the arrest was 10 months after the incident.
