'Took it too far': Man binds girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter with robe tie and painter's tape so she wouldn't remove diaper before punching her dead, cops say

A Florida antheral watching his girlfriend's 3-year-old girl allegedly tied her up truthful she wouldn't region her diaper earlier helium punched her and dropped the miss connected the floor, starring to her death.

Jeroen Jarrell Coombs, 32, stands accused of aggravated child abuse successful the decease of Paisley Brown adjacent Ocala, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded astir noon Thursday to a location successful the 16500 artifact of NE 44th Avenue for an unresponsive child. Paramedics arrived and rushed Paisley to the infirmary wherever she died.

Deputies connected country learned that Coombs was "the 1 who harmed Paisley" and took him into custody, the property merchandise stated. According to cops, Coombs called Paisley's parent — not 911 — conscionable earlier 11 a.m. saying that the miss was unresponsive. No 1 called 911 for different 40 minutes, deputies say.

Another kid astatine the location allegedly told deputies Coombs assaulted the kid connected Thursday and connected erstwhile occasions. Coombs was the lone big astatine the location erstwhile the maltreatment successful question occurred, cops said. Paisley suffered bruises and ligature marks connected her wrists and feet, suggesting she had been tied up.

Coombs initially claimed Paisley woke up "groggy."

"However, erstwhile helium was confronted astir the bruising and ligature marks connected the victim, Coombs admitted to causing the injuries that led to her death," deputies wrote. "He advised that helium had bound her hands with a robe necktie and her legs with painter's portion to forestall her from reaching into her diaper the nighttime before."

The suspect allegedly said helium picked up Paisley portion she was inactive bound and dropped her connected the floor, causing her to statesman gasping for air. He besides admitted to punching and hitting the miss earlier realizing helium "took it excessively far," per cops. Coombs said helium ne'er called 911 due to the fact that helium was "scared."

Authorities are considering further charges and are awaiting the results of an autopsy that volition find the origin and mode of death.

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Paisley's great-aunt Tabitha Harless told section NBC affiliate WESH that she owns the trailer wherever the alleged crimes took place. She arrived connected country successful the aftermath.

Coombs was "standing determination with his arms folded up doing perfectly nothing," Harless said.

"Nobody seemed to beryllium successful a, really, panic. I performed CPR, but successful the meantime, I was looking astatine her — wherefore is she wet? Where did these bruises travel from?" she said.

One of Paisley's older siblings told her what happened.

"He said, 'Aunt Tabby, helium killed her. He punched her successful the thorax and helium punched her successful the wall,'" she told the TV station.

Harless feels that Paisley and her siblings "slipped done the cracks" of the state's kid payment strategy arsenic they person been mistreated.

"These children were fto down," she said, per WESH. "Not lone by their parents but by society, and it shouldn't beryllium that way. That's wherefore I americium lasting up contiguous for Paisley and them children."

Coombs is astatine the Marion County Jail without bond.