A 3-year-old Florida girl was raped and beaten by her new stepfather before she died Monday, police said.
Charlie Brame had signs of recent sexual and “aggravated child abuse with severe brain trauma,” according to an Orlando Police Department report.
She died in an Orlando hospital after her stepfather, Pascal Kaufmann, reported Brame had stopped moving Saturday, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Kaufmann, 19, was behind Brame’s injuries and was charged with child neglect and rape, police said.
Kaufmann moved to the United States from Germany in August and wed Brame’s mother about a week ago, according to a police report.
On Saturday, he babysat Brame while her mother was at work, according to his arrest report.
Kaufmann told police the girl was hurt falling off a bed. When she didn’t move, he borrowed a neighbor’s cell phone and called his wife.
The alleged child rapist was “calm” in those moments and declined offers to help, neighbors said.
When paramedics arrived at the Orlando home, they found the girl struggling to breathe, with bruises covering her back and head, police said.
It “was unlikely that (Brame) could receive such severe head trauma from falling out of the bed,” police wrote in a report. Her injuries were “more consistent with blunt trauma to the back of the skull.”
Brame’s father had been concerned about Kaufmann being near his “happy and healthy” daughter after Brame said Kaufmann had spanked her, according to a police report.
He begged Brame’s mother not to leave the girl alone with Kaufmann, the report said.
He “told her that (Kaufmann) is to never touch his daughter again or he would kill him,” according to the report.
Kaufmann could face more charges depending on the results of an autopsy that will determine Brame’s cause of death.
He was denied bail.
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