Prosecutors say a 3-year-old boy struggling with potty training was beaten to death by his own father.
Now that Houston man could face a similar death sentence after being charged with capital murder Tuesday.
Anthony Trakemon Powell, 24, who’s accused of cracking his toddler’s skull on a bathroom floor last week allegedly also beat and scalded his 2-year-old son for similar reasons, prosecutors said.
“I’m tired of beating their ass and them not learning,” he reportedly told his sister, according to court documents obtained by KHOU.
After picking his two sons up from their mother’s Jasper home on Mother’s Day, Powell brought them back to his sister’s apartment where the alleged abuse began.
The boys’ aunt, 23-year-old Prosha Nicole Land, said the children were with their father in a bathroom when she heard him strike the oldest boy,Tristan, authorities said.
“She even described in the interview the sound that Tristan Powell’s head made when his head hit the floor of the bathroom,” Prosecutor Connie Spence said during a bond hearing, according to KHOU.
It wasn’t until the following day that Land called an ambulance for help when the boy complained of being sleepy and having trouble breathing.
In the back of the ambulance, Powell was described by witnesses as “nonchalant” and occupying his time by counting his money, Spence said.
At the hospital, an officer noticed the younger 2-year-old boy wrapped in a blanket and also appearing to be hurt.
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Upon further inspection authorities said that they discovered that he too had been abused.
Land has been charged with injury to a child, while Powell faces the harsher murder charge that if convicted could lead to a death sentence.
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