MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a 2 year-old girl was beaten to death by her father over a potty training issue.
According to Major Joe Scott with the Memphis Police Department, officers were called to the 1200 block of Turkey Run around 6:19 p.m., July 28, 2008, about a child in distress. Scott says when the officers arrived on the scene the child had already been taken to Le Bonhuer Children’s Medical Center, where she died.
During the investigation, detectives discovered that 20 year-old D’Andre Blake, the child’s father, had hit the 2 year-old girl several times over a potty training issue. Police say the child died from injures sustained from blunt force trauma.
Blake was arrested on the scene and has been charged with First Degree Murder in Perpetration of an Aggravated Child Abuse.
Police say, at the time of this arrest, Blake was out on a $20,000 bond for a Second Degree Murder charge for an incident that happened in February of 2006.