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…