A 2-year-old girl is dead after a caregiver hit her with a belt and burned her buttocks for discipline, police say.
Arlington police were called to an apartment early Saturday because a child wasn't breathing. The girl, Aniyah Darnell, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
An autopsy will determine her cause of death.
An affidavit said Shamonica Page admitted she repeatedly struck the girl and that she didn't seek medical help for the burn. She told police she had been caring for Aniyah since August for the girl's mother. Her precise relationship to Aniyah is unclear.
When police arrived at the scene, they also arrested Derick Roberson for outstanding misdemeanor warrants out of Fort Worth.
Roberson and Page are both charged with injury to a child.
Page was booked into Tarrant County Jail as Shamonica Jackson, a name under which she was previously arrested.
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Two other children in the home have been placed in the custody of Child Protective Services.
