‘He controlled everything’: Dad fatally starved 4-year-old girl found with barely an ounce of water in her stomach, cameras positioned on her bed

A Georgia father will likely spend the remainder of his days behind bars for starving his 4-year-old daughter to death nearly two years ago, when her body was discovered almost entirely devoid of food and water. A Fulton County jury on Wednesday found Rodney McWeay guilty on all 14 charges he was facing in connection to the death of young Treasure McWeay, including one count each of malice murder and felony murder.

Jurors also convicted the disgraced father on three counts each of first-degree child cruelty, false imprisonment, kidnapping, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Footage from inside the courtroom showed McWeay remaining mostly stoic and stone-faced as the jury read its verdicts, which came just more than a week after the trial began, courtroom footage of the proceedings provided by Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA shows…

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