Massachusetts family dealing with loss of 4-year-old as father faces charges

A Massachusetts father is facing charges after the death of his 4-year-old daughter.

According to a spokesperson with the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office, 34-year-old Francisco Ortiz of Worcester, was arraigned Wednesday on charges of assault and battery on a child with substantial injury, permitting substantial injury to a child, assault and battery, two counts of permitting injury to a child, and reckless endangerment of a child.

Just after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, a call came into Worcester dispatch for a report that a mother’s 4-year-old daughter was not breathing after falling on the floor with CPR in progress.

The girl was transported to UMass Memorial Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

According to NBC 10 Boston, doctors who treated the 4-year-old stated that she had a skull fracture consistent with falling two stories and that she had bruises all over her body. Ortiz stated that the child fell from a kitchen table and the other bruises were from previous falls.

Two other children in Ortiz’s care appeared to be bruised, malnourished and dehydrated.

A GoFundMe fundraiser announced that four-year-old A’zella Sky Ortiz of Worcester had died unexpectedly.

Ortiz was held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for October 23rd.