Man charged with beating, stomping 1-year-old girl to death
A Milwaukee man who told police that he threw his girlfriend’s 1-year-old daughter to the floor and then stomped her to death was charged Friday with reckless homicide and child abuse.
Tamio Shipman-Allen, 20, is also charged with abusing his girlfriend’s 3year-old son, who according to a criminal complaint was hospitalized with a list of traumatic injuries that includes a liver laceration and adrenal hemorrhaging, as well bruises, abrasions, and marks that indicate the boy had been whipped. According to the complaint: The mother left the children with Shipman-Allen on Sunday and went to work.
While there, the woman received multiple calls from Shipman-Allen. She ignored several of them, but when she finally answered, Shipman-Allen told her that the 1-year-old appeared to be having a seizure.
The woman hurried home and was met at the door by Shipman-Allen, who told her she did not want to go inside.
Rescue workers, who Shipman-Allen had not summoned until after the children’s mother got home, arrived a short time later. The 1-year-old was pronounced dead at the home and her brother was taken to a hospital.
Shipman-Allen admitted that he had slapped and whipped the 3-year-old boy, according to the complaint, and that he had thrown the girl on the floor and then stomped on her abdomen.
The girl suffered three broken ribs, lacerations to her liver and pancreas, and internal bleeding.
If convicted, Shipman-Allen faces up to 81 years in prison.