Man Charged With Killing 2-Year-Old Who Wiped Feces on Him

A 23-year-old Texas man is being charged with beating a 2-year-old to death after the child wiped feces on him, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports

Arturo Santiago Pena-Almanza Jr. was initially arrested Wednesday and charged with abandoning or endangering a child, but authorities determined that the death was not accidental and that Pena-Alamanza hit him several times.

He is now being charged with capital murder of a person under 10. The child was 2-year-old Jeremiah Degrate Rios, the son of a woman Pena-Almanza Jr. was seeing. The three lived in the Irving home where the body was found, after police responded to a report of an unconscious person Tuesday morning.