{"id":77675,"date":"2025-12-02T03:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:09:06","slug":"couple-charged-in-torture-death-of-a-14-month-old-in-long-beach-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77675\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple charged in torture death of a 14-month-old in Long Beach \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The father and stepmother of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/long-beach-father-stepmother-arrested-in-death-of-14-month-old-girl\/3809007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/long-beach-father-stepmother-arrested-in-death-of-14-month-old-girl\/3809007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14-month-old baby<\/a> were charged with murder and other counts Monday after being accused of torturing and killing the girl in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/long-beach\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/long-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office has also charged Alfredo Mu\u00f1oz, 40, and Kelly Mu\u00f1oz, 34, with torture and assault on a child causing death.<\/p>\n<p>The arraignment for the Long Beach couple was delayed until Dec. 16 as they were being held on $3 million bail.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach police said officers first responded to a hospital on Nov. 7 after receiving reports of child abuse. The child, whose name was not announced, died on Nov. 10 after being on life support. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;Through their continued investigation, homicide detectives determined there had been on-going abuse to the child and the victim&#8217;s death was a result of abuse from her father and stepmother,&#8221; according to a police statement.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were arrested last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The exact nature of the abuse was not released, but police said the child had visible signs of trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information was asked to contact homicide detectives Ethan Shear or Kelsey Myers at\u00a0\u00a0562-570-7244. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit<br \/>lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father and stepmother of a 14-month-old baby were charged with murder and other counts Monday after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-77675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}