Infant who was in the "custody of her father" dies from assault injuries (Edgewood, Maryland)

Dad KEATON IRONS is now charged with 1st- and 2nd-degree murder, 1st- and 2nd-degree assault, and 1st-degree child abuse in the beating death of his 1-year-old daughter. The little girl died after being hospitalized with severe head trauma. Note that this poor child "was in the care and custody of her father" at the time of the assault.

Just what does that mean? That he was babysitting? That he had joint custody/visitation, or, God forbid, sole custody? What?

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT: Where is this poor dead baby's mother? And how much choice did she really have in this "caretaking" arrangement with Killer Daddy? Or was this a judge's decision?

http://wjz.com/local/child.abuse.2.1731781.html

Jun 3, 2010 11:12 pm US/Eastern
Toddler Dies After Allegedly Assaulted By Father
EDGEWOOD, Md. (WJZ)

Police say two days after an alleged assault at the hands of her father, a baby girl has died.

Harford County Sheriff's deputies responded to the emergency room at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center regarding a child being treated for head trauma Tuesday afternoon.

Upon arrival, deputies learned 1-year-old Shamyrah Irons had been transported to the hospital from a home in Edgewood.

The child was then transported to Johns Hopkins Pediatric Center where she died Thursday evening.

Police say at the time of her injury, the child was in the care and custody of her father Keaton Irons.

Irons, 24, has been charged with attempted first-and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault and first-degree child abuse.

He is currently being held at the Harford County Detention Center without bond. Additional charges are pending.