FREEHOLD, N.J., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A New Jersey man was charged Wednesday with killing his daughter, the day after the 2-year-old's body was found in a car seat in a brook.
Arthur Morgan III had not been seen since Monday when he was spotted at a train station in Asbury Park, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported. An autopsy determined Tierra Morgan, 2, was alive when she was thrown into the water strapped into her car seat and concluded she was a victim of "homicidal violence."
"This is an unspeakably awful tragedy," Monmouth County prosecutor Peter E. Warshaw Jr. said at a news conference. "From a distance, it appears to be senseless, without reason."
Morgan, 27, picked up his daughter Monday afternoon for a scheduled visit. The child's mother, Imani Benton, 24, reported to police a few hours later that he had not brought the girl back.
Michelle Simmonds, Benton's mother, said her daughter was hospitalized after police told her Tierra's body had been found.
