Flanagan (left) strangled his 2-year-old daughter to death. (Picture / flipped by China Press)
Recently, a pair of parents in Texas had a quarrel. The father strangled his 2-year-old daughter to death in anger. He has been arrested and imprisoned. At the hearing, the judge raised his bond to 2 million US dollars (about NT$60.66 million). The wife recalled that she witnessed the whole process of her daughter’s life disappearing through a video call.
according toFox Newsreport. Deontray Flanagan, a 25-year-old man in Texas, picked up his 2-year-old daughter from the baby care center at noon on the 20th. After 45 minutes, he went to the Wal-Mart supermarket where his wife Watson (Kairsten Watson) worked. Flanagan Root got into an argument with her and he is said to have been violent and grabbed Watson’s phone before taking the child out of the supermarket.
according to《ABC13》Prosecutors said Watson made a FaceTime video call with Flanagan on an iPhone during the police chase, and the child was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead after police surrounded the offending vehicle, prosecutors said. Flanagan hit her daughter with a blunt object and strangled her, according to charging documents.
Watson recalled that she witnessed the last moments of her daughter’s life, because she witnessed the whole process of the crime with a video call. “The daughter was lying on her husband’s lap and gasping for breath, and he held her neck tightly with his arms,” Flanagan said. , “You asked me to do it, you only care about children.” Watson broke down, no, please stop.
At the hearing on the 22nd, the judge raised Flanagan’s bail to US$2 million (approximately NT$60.66 million). Prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said Flanagan’s charges could escalate. Watson said that she had received threatening text messages from Flanagan before, threatening to harm her daughter, and she had called the police many times, but the police ignored them. “They thought I was just making up a story.”
It is understood that Flanagan was charged with evading arrest in 2017; in 2018, he was charged with harming his family and was sentenced to 30 days in prison.