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American Beat 3-Yr-Old To Death To Show Her It's A Tough World

A Mississippi man recently beat a 3-year-old girl to death because she couldn’t answer questions about numbers. He told investigators that it is a tough world, and that she had to be tough if she wanted to survive.

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Tara Khandelwal
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A Mississippi man recently beat a 3-year-old girl to death because she couldn’t answer questions about numbers. He told investigators that it is a tough world, and that she had to be tough if she wanted to survive.

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Joshua Salovich, a boxer, has been charged with capital murder and could face the death penalty. The 25-year-old beat Bailey Salovich with a bamboo rod, a cellphone cord and his hands.

Investigators are not clear on whether Joshua was the child’s father. He told investigators that he would ‘pop’ the girl every time she gave a wrong answer and that he used this method of disciplining her at least five times a week. On the day she passed away, he said that she had been giving an unusual amount of wrong answers. 

The girl’s mother was in a different room at the time of the incident, and has not been charged with anything. However, investigators are trying to ascertain whether she knew anything about Joshua’s punishment methods.

The child suffered bleeding in the brain and lungs. She arrived at Jackson hospital last Friday (July 14), but passed away the next evening. The police are awaiting autopsy results that will determine the cause of death.

When asked how hard he had hit the child on a scale of 1 to 10, Joshua rated his punishment at 10. When he was told the child had died, Joshua apparently got very upset. He is being held without bail. The police investigator Dubose stated that it was unusual that Joshua admitted to abusing a child as openly as he did.

"He was pretty straightforward about what he did and why he did it,' Dubose said.

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Picture Credit: Time

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