'I think he hurt my daughter': Man claimed girlfriend's 2-year-old died after choking on rice, falling off playground slide, but then he started acting too 'calm' about it, cops say

An Oregon antheral acted "calm and unconcerned" aft allegedly beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter to death, constabulary accidental — adding that the antheral made up a communicative astir the miss choking connected atom and falling disconnected a slide.

"I deliberation helium wounded my daughter," the girlfriend told constabulary aft seeing her kid successful the hospital, covered astir caput to toed with "significant" bruises, according to a probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

Dison Ruda, 28, claimed the woman's girl "choked connected rice" and suffered an "alleged autumn disconnected the steps of a playground slide" earlier her decease connected March 28, according to the affidavit. A superintendent astatine Blue Lake Park successful Fairview called police that Saturday greeting astir 11:45 a.m. and reported seeing Ruda carrying a kid who appeared to beryllium "unresponsive, unconscious and not breathing," per police.

The superintendent "observed that Ruda was blowing successful the child's rima arsenic helium was walking and tried to pass to him to enactment the kid down to execute CPR," according to the affidavit, which was filed past week by the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office. "He walked backmost implicit toward his parked vehicle, a bluish Honda Odyssey … earlier laying the kid connected the grass."

The superintendent told constabulary she "began to administer aid" and that Ruda informed her the miss choked connected rice. "So [the superintendent] did rima expanse and administered the Heimlich maneuver," the affidavit says. "She did not find immoderate obstruction."

Police and paramedics reported seeing "extreme bruising to the child's chest, neck, and jaw, which were not accordant with choking connected food," according to the affidavit. Inflamed bruising connected the girl's cervix and jawline "that were not caused by lifesaving efforts" was besides reported and appeared to beryllium "getting worse arsenic clip passed," the affidavit says.

"Notable bruising throughout her body, concerning for imaginable mechanics of nonaccidental trauma/strangulation," the girl's archetypal infirmary appraisal read, according to the affidavit. "CT scan showed a left-sided subdural hematoma with midline displacement and diffuse cerebral edema."

Hospital unit reported a nonaccomplishment of "blood travel to the brain" and "lack of oxygen to the encephalon and different interior organs," per the affidavit. "She was not expected to past and was declared dormant little than 12 hours later," the papers says.

Speaking done a Chuukese interpreter, Ruda allegedly claimed that helium saw the unfortunate ascent up the steps of a playground descent "on each fours" and "fall distant from them, landing connected her forehead from a tallness of astir 6 feet." He alleged that she "fell into woodchips" and that helium could not aftermath her.

The girl's origin of decease was "acute near subdural hematoma owed to blunt caput trauma" and the mode of decease was homicide, according to police.

An introspection of the child's assemblage showed bruising each over, including her chin, chest, abdomen and her extremities.

"[The aesculapian examiner] considered lit connected abbreviated falls successful children, the impact-absorbing surface, the beingness of blunt traumatic injuries connected different assemblage surfaces, including surfaces that are not commonly injured successful guiltless ways, and the deficiency of abrasions 1 would expect to spot from autumn connected woodchips to reason that the etiology of the encephalon wounded successful this lawsuit was abusive successful nature," the affidavit says. "He concluded that her presumption and injuries were highly concerning for kid carnal abuse."

Ruda's apprehension came aft "months of investigative work," according to constabulary officials. He has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of second-degree murder, first-degree assault, third-degree assault, and first-degree transgression mistreatment.

Ruda is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected June 22.