Police: Inmates attack man accused in girl s torture death
March 9, 2021
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MIAMI (AP) Five South Florida inmates beat up an accused child killer as he slept because “of the nature of his pending charges, authorities said in a police report.
All five have been charged with battery by a detainee for the March 1 attack on Jorge Barahona at the Miami-Dade County jail. Barahona, 53, suffered bruises on his face, a nosebleed and a small cut on his nose, the Miami Herald reported.
Barahona is accused of killing his adopted 10-year-old daughter Nubia Barahona in February 2011, after investigators said he tortured her and her twin brother Victor for months. The child s body was found on Valentine s Day 2011, soaked with chemicals in the back of her father s truck along an interstate in Palm Beach County.
Five inmates in a South Florida jail beat up an accused child killer as he slept. Jorge Barahona is accused of murdering his 10-year-old adopted daughter after investigators said he tortured her and her twin brother for months.
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