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A Fort Worth man is facing a capital murder charge after police say he beat his 9-year-old daughter to death with a belt after she wet the bed.

Fort Worth Police said Wednesday that 35-year-old Marquise Dayshun Anderson was arrested Tuesday afternoon, about a week after the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that his daughter’s death was a homicide caused by extensive blunt force injuries throughout her body.

According to Fort Worth Police, on Feb. 8, officers were sent to a residence on the 1900 block of Daniel Street at about 3:15 a.m. and arrived to find CPR being given to a 9-year-old girl lying on the floor. The child was taken to the hospital by paramedics, where she later died.

Police said the attending physician told investigators that the girl, identified as Joanna Jordyn Shoulder, appeared to have extensive bruising all over her body. Homicide detectives requested an autopsy and went to the girl’s home to interview her father.

According to an affidavit obtained by NBC 5, an unidentified woman whose name had been redacted from the report told police that Joanna had been visiting her father and that he used a belt to discipline her the day before her death. The woman also told investigators that Anderson woke her up and told her that his daughter had become ill while bathing and that when he left to get her some water, he heard a commotion in the bathroom and returned to find she had fallen, hit her head and begun vomiting. She said she performed CPR while waiting for paramedics.

Police then spoke with the girl’s father, who said his daughter had wet the bed twice and that after the second time he disciplined her and put her in the tub to soak. Anderson told police the bath lasted about three hours. During questioning, police said Anderson admitted to spanking the girl with his hand a half dozen times. He said he then hit her with the blue cloth belt with a metal buckle 6-7 times because he said she smirked at him and that he didn’t think the previous discipline had been effective.

Anderson told police that he checked on her periodically while in the bath and that she appeared “sleepy, thirsty, hot and slurring her speech.” He said when he went to get her some water, he returned to find her hanging over the edge of the tub and vomiting. He said she became unresponsive, and that about 10 minutes later, they called 911.

According to the affidavit, police said Anderson gave them several explanations for injuries to his daughter’s head, including that she hit her head on the faucet when she fell and that she struck both sides of her head when he pulled her from the tub.

Police said records from Cook Children’s Medical Center said Joanna arrived at the hospital in cardiac arrest and doctors “documented multiple bruises on Joanna’s back, thighs, lower extremities, and flank. Medical personnel documented patterned injuries, including semi-circular bruising and a linear bruise on the thigh. Emergency physicians noted multiple bruises of varying size and appearance.” The medical examiner’s report said the child was subjected to extensive blunt force trauma and the exam revealed at least 30 contusions in the torso and lower extremities. Many of the injuries displayed the pattern consistent with a belt. The exam also uncovered “abundant hemorrhage of the soft tissues,” blunt force injuries to the head and neck, hemorrhaging beneath the scalp and hemorrhage involving the cervical and thoracic spinal canal. The examiner found no traumatic skeletal injuries, no toxicological substances and no natural disease process that contributed to the girl’s death.

Investigators said the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy said the injuries were consistent with the areas Anderson admitted striking and that a belt pattern was visible.

Joanna’s biological mother was also interviewed, and she told police her daughter had no significant medical problems and was developing normally and capable of bathing on her own.

Anderson has been charged with capital murder of a person under the age of 10 and is being held in the Fort Worth Jail. A bond amount has not yet been set and it’s unclear if he’s obtained an attorney to speak on his behalf. If convicted of capital murder, Anderson faces either life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.