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Miss. Man Accused of Beating 3-Year-Old Girl to Death Over Math Lesson Charged with Capital Murder

Lauderdale County, Miss. Sheriff’s Department

A Meridian, Miss. man is accused of beating a 3-year-old girl as hard as he possible could because she could not answer questions about numbers correctly.

Police say that 25-year-old Josh Salovich was teaching numbers to little Bailey Salovich when Salovich explained that the little girl was not getting the questions correct, so he began to beat her as punishment..

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According to WTOK, detectives say that Salovich confessed to hitting the child with a bamboo rod, a cord and his hands as hard as possible. Salovich was originally charged with felony child abuse, but that was later changed to capital murder. He could face the death penalty for the charges, the Clarion-Ledger notes, and is currently being held without bond.

Detectives said that the child went to the bathroom on herself after being struck and Salovich also began to punish her for that. Bailey’s mother was said to be in another room with the door closed and the TV on at the time of the brutal beating.

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“If the mother had been present in the same room when this incident occurred, or has knowledge that it was occurring, then there may have been charges,” Meridian Police Chief Benny Dubose told the news station.

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It is not immediately clear if Salovich is Bailey’s biological father.

Bailey reportedly suffered bleeding in the brain, a detached retina, blood in her lungs and marks all over her body. Police say they conducted several interviews with Salovich and he confessed to the child’s beating in every one of them.

“According to investigators he did indicate a little remorse. Whether it was genuine or not, I don’t know,” Dubose said.

The Clarion-Ledger reports that Salovich told investigators that “this was a tough world and she had to be tough if she wanted to survive,” when asked about the beating.

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Dubose said that Salovich told police that he was asking the 3-year-old questions about numbers and would “pop” her when she got an answer wrong. Salovich said that he used this method of discipline on the child at least five times per week, acknowledging that he used a bamboo rod until it broke, before turning to a cellphone cord and his hands.

When detectives asked Salovich how hard he struck the child on a scale of 1 to 10, “he rated them all 10s, with no hesitation,” Dubose said.

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“He was pretty straightforward about what he did and why he did it,” Dubose said.

Read more at WTOK and the Clarion-Ledger.

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