Worcester Man Charged With Assault In Death Of Child: Reports

WORCESTER, MA — A man is facing charges in the death of his 4-year-old daughter, according to WCVB 5-ABC.

Police responded to an apartment on Sever Street on a report of a child who had fallen on the floor and was unresponsive.

Francisco Ortiz, 34, told police his daughter fell off the kitchen table, according to WHDH 7-News.

Emergency crews attempted to resuscitate the child, but she was pronounced dead at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

An autopsy found that the child's head and facial injuries were consistent with "two-story fall and not a fall from a table," WCVB 5-ABC reported.

Hospital staff found that the child had several bruises on different parts of her body, which Ortiz reportedly said were from the girl falling off the table on numerous occasions, according to WHDH 7-News.

Ortiz was charged with assault and battery on a child with substantial injury, domestic assault and battery, and reckless endangerment of a child.

He was held without bail and will be back in court next week for a dangerousness hearing.

Read the full story at WCVB 5-ABC and WHDH 7-News.