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Worcester man charged in toddler daughter’s death deemed dangerous
Officials say the girl suffered injuries in her left eye, earlobes, neck, chin, arms, abdomen, chest, and hips.
A Worcester man facing charges in connection to the death of his daughter was found dangerous and held without bail at a hearing on Wednesday.
Francisco Ortiz is accused of killing his 4-year-old daughter in Worcester.
Officers responded to a 911 call made by Ortiz, and found his 4-year-old daughter with “just a shirt on, was otherwise naked from the waist down, appeared to have feces covering parts of her body including her socks and feet, and [an officer] saw initially some bleeding from her mouth and from her lips,” Assistant District Attorney Courtney Sans said at the hearing.
The girl suffered injuries in her left eye, earlobes, neck, chin, arms, abdomen, chest, and hips, Sans said. She later died after being brought to UMass Memorial Medical Center.
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Ortiz allegedly told officers that the girl had fallen off a kitchen table, according to court documents, but doctors said the skull fracture appeared much more severe than one that might have been sustained in a fall like that, NBC Boston reported. Two other children at the home also had injuries.
Ortiz was charged with assault and battery on a child with substantial injury, permitting substantial injury to a child, assault and battery, two counts of permitting injury to a child, and reckless endangerment of a child, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office.
Ortiz was held without bail at the Oct. 23 hearing, the office said.
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The next date for the case is Nov. 20.
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