NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – A man was arrested April 24 in connection with the death of a 20-month-old toddler, according to court docs.
Officers were sent out to 36 Cedar Ave around 7:46 a.m. April 5 for reports of a dead child and found the toddler unconscious on a mattress. The toddler was pronounced dead four minutes later, according to docs.
Documents mentioned that the man accused, Zai-Twond Perry, was babysitting the toddler at the time of his death.
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Perry told detectives that he caught the toddler playing with his own feces, which prompted him to give the toddler a bath. The court docs further mention that while bathing the toddler, Perry squeezed the boy’s ribs in frustration, which aligns with the hand placement and bruising discovered during the autopsy…