The father of a toddler who has been missing for weeks told police he beat and shook the child until she “appeared lifeless” — just days after she had been dropped off to him — and arranged with a friend to dispose of her body after placing it in a duffel bag.
The troubling statements were contained in new court documents in which a witness also alleges that 40-year-old Travis Rodrigues, now charged with second-degree murder, was high on methamphetamine at the time of his daughter’s death on or around Feb. 4 and may have given the drug to his child.
According to the court documents released Tuesday, the witness reported seeing Rodrigues slapping, kicking and swearing at the toddler, 18-month-old Kytana Ancog.
The attack left the child bruised and bleeding, but Rodrigues allegedly told the witness that the blood was chocolate and that she had fallen in the shower. The witness also told police the father tried to give the child a meth pipe and said, “That’s what she like!”
The witness left the home and returned the next day to see the child was “dangling as if lifeless” and that the father “was smoking methamphetamine and looked high.”
In his statements to police, Rodrigues admitted to hitting and squeezing the girl until she was lifeless. He believed she was dead but did not call police, the documents say.
Instead, he confessed to wrapping the child’s body in a bed sheet and placing it in a duffel.
The father then allegedly met with another acquaintance, 48-year-old Scott M. Carter, who agreed to give Rodrigues a ride to an acquaintance’s house with the girl’s body still in the car, police said.
Rodrigues told police he remained at the house while Carter drove off.
Before leaving Carter allegedly told Rodrigues about the body, “don’t worry about it, I’ll take care of it.”
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