‘I think he hurt my daughter’: Man claimed girlfriend’s 2-year-old died after choking on rice, falling off playground slide, but then he started acting too ‘calm’ about it, cops say

An Oregon man acted “calm and unconcerned” after allegedly beating his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter to death, police say — adding that the man made up a story about the girl choking on rice and falling off a slide.

“I think he hurt my daughter,” the girlfriend told police after seeing her child in the hospital, covered nearly head to toe with “significant” bruises, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

Dison Ruda, 28, claimed the woman’s daughter “choked on rice” and suffered an “alleged fall off the steps of a playground slide” before her death on March 28, according to the affidavit. A superintendent at Blue Lake Park in Fairview called police that Saturday morning around 11:45 a.m. and reported seeing Ruda carrying a child who appeared to be “unresponsive, unconscious and not breathing,” per police…

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