ARLINGTON — Police in Arlington have arrested a man accused in the brutal beating death of his girlfriend's 18-month-old child last week.
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According to police documents, Beard allegedly beat Tylea Moore "by hitting her with his closed fists, open hands and stomping on her with his feet" at a residence in the 2200 block of Polo Club Court.
The child's mother, 17-year-old Alexis Botello, reported Tylea was missing on Sunday, but investigators quickly surmised that her story was not adding up.
Botello admitted she was present when Tylea was being beaten, according to statements in a search warrant. She told police that Beard also hit her.
The child had been beaten so badly that she did not wake up.
Beard and Botello put Tylea's body in the trunk of her car; they then drove away, stopping at a Wal-Mart in Weatherford to buy gloves and two shovels, she told police.
Botello showed officers where Tylea had been buried, under a bridge near Springtown in rural Parker County. Police recovered shovels that had been hidden in trees along the side of the road.
On Monday afternoon, police found a child's body.