A Lengthy Seaside man who beforehand served time in jail for felony baby abuse was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of torturing and murdering his 14-month-old daughter, authorities mentioned.
The toddler’s father, Alfredo Munoz, 40, and stepmother Kelly Munoz, 34, have been taken into custody within the 200 block of East Louise Road in reference to the kid’s loss of life, in response to the Lengthy Seaside Police Division.
Officers initially responded to a hospital on Nov. 7 the place the toddler was unresponsive with indicators of extreme trauma, police mentioned. She was placed on life assist and died three days later. Her identification is being withheld.
Over the course of a two-week investigation, murder detectives decided that the toddler had been a sufferer of ongoing abuse and that her loss of life was a direct results of abuse from her father and stepmother, police mentioned.
Each suspects are being held with out bail on the Lengthy Seaside Jail, and detectives plan to current the case to the L.A. County district lawyer’s workplace for submitting consideration subsequent week.
Alfredo Munoz was beforehand sentenced to 4 years in state jail in December 2021 after he pleaded no contest to at least one depend of willful cruelty to a baby inflicting potential harm or loss of life, in response to court docket information.
A legislation enforcement supply confirmed the person charged within the prior Lengthy Seaside abuse case was the identical man arrested Tuesday. The supply spoke on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to debate the case with the media.
Munoz had been launched from custody on the time the alleged abuse of the now-deceased toddler happened.
Anybody with info concerning this incident is requested to contact Murder Dets. Ethan Shear and Kelsey Myers at (562) 570-7244. Nameless suggestions may be left at (800) 222-8477 or at www.lacrimestoppers.org.
