A three-year-old girl is dead after investigators say she was beaten and possibly raped at her home near Forrest City Friday morning, the St. Francis County Sheriff's Office confirms.
The girl's mother said her daughter was alert and watching TV when she left for work at 6 a.m.
Around 9:30 a.m., she said she got a call from her live-in boyfriend, Deonte Miller, urging her to return to their home. When she did, she found her daughter unresponsive.
Miller is charged with capital murder.
"She was bruised from the waist up," said Cpl. Jeff Goff with the St. Francis County Sheriff's Office.
"Looks like she had a cord tied around her neck. Possibly, he tried to choke her," said Sheriff Bobby May.
May believes the girl may also have been raped since investigators found blood to support their suspicions.
The girl's mother refuses to believe it was Miller, who she said she's known since November.
"I don’t think he would do anything like that," she said.
But deputies said Miller, who has a criminal history, gave five different stories about how the girl got her injuries.
"One is she was out, they were out riding the bicycles and fell. Another was she was jumping up and down on the bed and fell," said May.
May said his office could also charge Miller with rape pending the results of a rape kit.
"It's a sad moment right now. My heart is broken," said the girl's mother, who asked for the public's prayers.
Sheriff: 3-year-old dies after being beaten, possibly raped, by mother’s boyfriend
ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, Ark. — A three-year-old girl is dead after investigators say she was beaten and possibly raped at her home near Forrest City Friday morning, the St. Francis County Sheriff…
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