A 3-year-old girl who died Tuesday after a savage beating had likely endured long-term physical abuse, according to King County prosecutors. Baker — arrested late Tuesday and initially held on investigation of domestic-violence homicide — was charged Friday with first-degree criminal mistreatment.
Jackson, 24, was arrested Thursday night and made his first court appearance Friday, when a King County District Court judge found probable cause to hold him on investigation of domestic-violence homicide. He is expected to be formally charged next week. The 3-year-old, who is referred to in charging documents by her initials, N. Tuesday, telling a dispatcher the 3-year-old was dehydrated and vomiting.
He gave the operator an address in Seattle, though the computer system showed his cellphone was pinging off a cell tower in Auburn, the charges say.
The phone call was disconnected, and when the operator called back, a woman told the dispatcher aid was not needed, charging papers say. A second call was made from the same cellphone at p. Medics arrived at their apartment complex at 23rd St. Investigators performed an autopsy and found the 3-year-old had significant bruising all over her body, as well as a variety of fractures to her ribs, arm, wrist, pelvis and collarbone, the papers say.
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