Fort Worth man beat his daughter to death with belt because she wet the bed: police

A man used a blue cloth belt with a metal buckle to thrash his 9-year-old daughter to death earlier this year at a house in Fort Worth, police alleged on Tuesday as they arrested him on suspicion of capital murder.

Joanna Shoulder received the beating as discipline for wetting her bed, according to a homicide detective’s account of his interview of the girl’s father described in an arrest warrant affidavit.

The beating left at least 30 bruises on Joanna’s torso, and a belt pattern was present among the injuries, according to the assessment of a pathologist described in the affidavit…

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