Sunny Isles Beach man caught on camera kicking, ‘slamming’ 2-year-old daughter, police say

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. – A Sunny Isles Beach antheral is facing 2 felony charges aft constabulary said helium was caught connected surveillance video astatine his flat gathering severely abusing his 2-year-old girl due to the fact that she was “being fussy.”

Police said the incidental happened Tuesday evening. They redacted accusation astir wherever the incidental happened from reports released to section media outlets Wednesday morning.

The reports authorities that a beforehand table clerk had been tipped disconnected to the maltreatment and called police.

Authorities said they viewed aggregate clips from the building’s CCTV strategy showing Andrei Sevastianov, 37, beating, and astatine 1 point, appearing to choke his daughter. The archetypal video was from the building’s excavation area, wherever constabulary said the maltreatment began.

“(Sevastianov) takes a towel, picks up the unfortunate and wraps it astir her cervix country and appears to tighten the towel,” an apprehension study states. “The unfortunate is seen flailing her arms astir arsenic helium is squeezing. He past lets spell and faces the unfortunate towards him. As helium does this, helium grabs the unfortunate by the hairsbreadth and slams her caput connected his shoulder. (Sevastianov) past begins to locomotion wrong of the lobby, carrying the victim.”

The maltreatment continued inside, constabulary said. They described what surveillance cameras successful the gathering showed.

“As helium was walking successful the door, helium drops the unfortunate from thorax tallness and knees her connected the mode down arsenic she hits the floor,” the study states. “(Sevastianov) past kicks her connected the close broadside of her head. (He) past yanks the unfortunate up from the level by her hair. The 2 marque their mode to the elevator.”

Police said the miss was past seen successful surveillance video falling to the level aft the 2 got into the elevator. They said Sevastianov past picked up the miss and “violently (shook) her, causing her caput to uncontrollably drawback backmost and distant respective times.”

They described what the video showed next.

“While inactive waiting for the elevator, helium tightly wraps a towel astir the victim’s assemblage and throws her implicit his enarthrosis arsenic the unfortunate dangles, kicking her legs,” constabulary said. “The suspect past backs into the partition slamming her into it, pinning her betwixt the partition and his back. The suspect than whips her astir to the front, letting her autumn to the floor.”

During a Wednesday greeting quality conference, Sgt. Brian Schnell, a Sunny Isles Beach constabulary spokesperson, described the actions arsenic “things that you don’t expect to spot hap to a child, particularly astatine the hands of idiosyncratic they spot astir successful the world, their father.”

Authorities said they went to Sevastianov’s portion and arsenic they tried to apprehension the Russian national, helium “attempted to propulsion away” and “forcefully elbowed” an serviceman successful the chest.

Once successful custody and successful questioning, Sevastianov said done an interpreter that his girl “was not listening to him and being fussy, refusing to obey him,” the study states.

“I showed him the signaling of the incidental and helium stated that helium wrapped the towel astir her due to the fact that it was windy,” an serviceman wrote successful the report. “He stated that erstwhile she fell to the ground, ‘She wanted to beryllium enactment down, truthful I enactment her down.’”

Police said Sevastianov claimed helium “did not suffer his temper” and that his girl was “just being difficult.”

They said helium did admit to “realiz(ing) however it looks from a third-party view,” calling what happened a “mistake” and thing that “won’t hap again.”

Medics took the girl, accompanied by her mother, to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital successful Hollywood for valuation and treatment, constabulary said.

Officers arrested Sevastianov connected 1 number of aggravated kid maltreatment causing large bodily harm oregon torture and 5 counts of kid maltreatment causing nary large bodily harm, on with a number of resisting an serviceman with violence.

As of Wednesday morning, helium was being held successful the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a enslaved listed arsenic “to beryllium set.”

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