{"id":3363,"date":"2010-06-29T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2010-06-29T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:27:30","slug":"illegal-alien-allegedly-killed-tot-who-cried-during-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/illegal-alien-allegedly-killed-tot-who-cried-during-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal alien allegedly killed tot who cried during World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Associated Press   <\/em>   <\/p>\n<p><strong>  Police: Tot who cried during World Cup is killed  <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   McALLEN \u2014 A man accused of fatally beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter in Texas because she wouldn&#8217;t stop crying as he watched a World Cup match was expected to be charged Monday with murder, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Hector Castro, 27, of McAllen was arrested Saturday and scheduled to be arraigned Monday in municipal court. He told police that the toddler wouldn&#8217;t stop crying while he was watching the U.S.-Ghana game on Saturday, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez told The McAllen Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was severely beaten, and police said a screw or bolt was forced down her throat in an apparent attempt to make it look like she accidentally choked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no words for this,&#8221; Rodriguez said. &#8220;It makes you want to think about doing lots of things to this guy, but he will face the criminal justice system just like everybody else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Castro, who was in the U.S. illegally, confessed to beating the girl, Rodriguez said. The toddler suffered several cracked ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Four other children who lived at Castro&#8217;s apartment in McAllen were placed into the custody of Child Protective Services, Rodriguez said. There was no word on where the child&#8217;s mother was at the time of the child&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>McAllen is just north of the U.S.-Mexico border at the southern tip of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/7084480.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press Police: Tot who cried during World Cup is killed McALLEN \u2014 A man accused of fatally beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter in Texas because she wouldn&#8217;t stop crying as he watched a World Cup match was expected to be charged Monday with murder, police said. Hector Castro, 27, of McAllen was arrested Saturday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}