Dad "person of interest" in death of 2-year-old daughter (Fort Worth, Texas)

Whatta mensch. Seems the intoxicated UNNAMED DAD (who is identified in other news reports as CHARLES BELLAMY) was "caretaking" for their 2-year-old daughter while Mom was working (to support his lazy @$$). It appears this deadbeat POS left the little girl in a bathtub of hot water before he "fell asleep" (passed out?). Then he wrapped her dead body in a sheet and dumped her in the car trunk. Well, at least, that's what he told Mom. Daddy went AWOL before the medics arrived, and hasn't been seen since.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/031711-dead-toddler-found-in-tub,-mom-says

Dead Toddler Found in Tub, Mom Says
Published : Thursday, 17 Mar 2011, 5:11 PM CDT

Dionne Anglin
FOX 4 News
Adopted for Web by Tracy DeLatte myFOXdfw.com

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth mother is talking about the death of her little girl while police continue to search for the child’s father.

Joy Howard said she first learned about 2-year-old Jazmine’s death when her boyfriend picked her up from work Tuesday night. He is Jazmine’s father.

She said he was clearly agitated and upset. He told her the toddler had wet her pants so he put her in a tub filled with water. But he’d been drinking and fell asleep in another room, she said.

“He said, ‘When I woke up I ran in the bathroom and pulled her out of the bathtub.’ And he said he tried to do CPR on her but it didn’t work, so he wrapped her in a sheet and put her in the car,” Howard said.

According to Howard, the car he mentioned was hers. It’s the same tan Buick FOX 4 saw police collecting evidence from on Wednesday and the same one they were in at the time.

She said her boyfriend claimed he drove Jazmine to an Arlington hospital.

“He said he drove to the hospital in Arlington but when he pulled up he was scared because he was drunk,” she said.

Howard said at that point while in the car she ordered her boyfriend to pull over so she could drive. And she then drove to the house on Edgewood Terrace where they both lived with her boyfriend’s mother.

“I said you better tell me where my baby’s at. Tell me where she is right now. He told me he had wrapped her in the sheet and put her in the trunk of my car. I had been riding with her in my car the whole time,” Howard said.

Howard said when they go to the home that’s when she frantically told her boyfriend’s mother to call 911.

Police are not yet calling Jazmine’s father a suspect, only a person of interest in the case. He left the house before paramedics arrived and hasn’t returned.

The medical examiner has yet to reveal the little girl’s official cause of death. However, a preliminary investigation revealed she had burns on her lower body.

“It still feels so unreal. I still feel like I can pick her up,” Howard said. “She was my life. She was so happy.”