Convicted abuser arrested in SoCal killing of 14-month-old daughter

A Lengthy Seashore man who beforehand served time in jail for felony little one abuse was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of torturing and murdering his 14-month-old daughter, authorities stated.

The toddler’s father, Alfredo Munoz, 40, and stepmother Kelly Munoz, 34, had been taken into custody within the 200 block of East Louise Avenue in reference to the kid’s loss of life, in keeping with the Lengthy Seashore Police Division.

Officers initially responded to a hospital on Nov. 7 the place the toddler was unresponsive with indicators of extreme trauma, police stated. She was placed on life help 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 stated.

Each suspects are being held with out bail on the Lengthy Seashore 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 1 depend of willful cruelty to a baby inflicting potential damage or loss of life, in keeping with courtroom information.

A regulation enforcement supply confirmed the person charged within the prior Lengthy Seashore 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 passed off.

Anybody with data relating to this incident is requested to contact Murder Dets. Ethan Shear and Kelsey Myers at (562) 570-7244. Nameless ideas could be left at (800) 222-8477 or at www.lacrimestoppers.org.