The violence that allegedly led to Shannah’s death began over shoes on the wrong feet, an investigator with Texas Department of Family & Protective Services said in his report.
The family was getting ready to go to the store to get things for a birthday party for Shannah and her brother, the document said. The 3-year-old girl had her shoes on the wrong feet, and Nunez reportedly hit her on her face. She fell, and Nunez grabbed her and held her up in the air before he punched her three times in her stomach and dropped her to the floor, Mcalpine told investigators.
Shannah walked into the room and didn’t put her shoes on fast enough for Nunez. He grabbed her and punched her with a closed fist to her stomach.
Mcalpine took Shannah from the room and put her on a bed, but Nunez came in and reportedly choked Shannah with both hands. She turned blue, but Nunez kept choking her for a couple of minutes, her mother said. Mcalpine said she yelled and tried to pull him off her daughter, but she couldn’t. When he finally quit choking her, Shannah gasped for breath and curled into a “ball” position, her mother said.
At about 2 a.m., Mcalpine said she woke up and Shannah was crying. She tried to get her to eat and drink something. Then she saw that Shannah’s stomach was swollen and hot — but the rest of her body was cold. She put Shannah in the shower to try to warm her up, but Shannah couldn’t even stand on her own and wasn’t breathing right. Soon after that was when she called 911 — at about 2:49 a.m.
Shannah was pronounced dead at 3:31 a.m.
Two children had bruises, were put in protective custody and taken to the hospital. That is where forensic examinations were done on the children.
Shannah’s brother said Nunez “fights them and hits them” and that is why they are covered in bruises. The 3-year-old girl had bruising on her neck from being choked. She had bruises on her abdomen, arms, face and back from being hit. The boy said his shoulder hurt because Nunez grabbed him there and threw him on the ground, the report said.
He saw Nunez hurt Shannah, her brother said. He showed the investigators what happened by hitting himself three times in the stomach. Shannah threw up afterward, her brother said.
The report said the boy told investigators Nunez previously choked Shannah. His 3-year-old sister was choked because she didn’t put her shoes on the right way. He said Nunez hit him with a belt and pushed him to the ground.
The Shitty mom Nunez became more violent with the children beginning in June 2019. He would sometimes spank the boy, but he “mainly directed his anger” at the girls because of potty training issues. Nunez strangled, punched and slapped the girls in the face, their mother said.
Leaving the children in Mcalpine’s custody would put them in more danger and Mcalpine might continue to leave her children with Nunez, CPS said. The consensus was that Mcalpine didn’t “acknowledge the concerns regarding Mr. Nunez’s abusive behavior towards her children,” the report said.
Further, Mcalpine put her children at risk by exposing them to Nunez and not making a reasonable effort to keep them from being hurt by him.
“An emergency removal is necessary, because there are no orders in place to protect these children from the negligence and abuse by their mother and Mr. Nunez,” the report said.
Mcalpine’s lack of ability to be a protective caregiver resulted in Shannah’s death, according to the document. The children were severely, physically abused for several months.
“It is evident that Ms. Mcalpine placed her own selfish desires of wanting to engage in a relationship with Mr. Nunez before protecting her children,” the investigator said.
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