A California man was convicted on Tuesday of torture, assault, and corporal injury to a child after being detained three years prior for severely abusing his daughter, who is four years old.
In November 2021, aspiring artist Tekquan Alexander was taken into custody for abusing his little daughter viciously and repeatedly. The girl was transported to Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles after being abused by her father for days and becoming unresponsive.
According to local news organization KTLA, she was diagnosed with “traumatic injuries to her brain and spine, as well as broken bones and dozens of cuts and bruises.”
According to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office, she was in a “vegetative state” as a result of her “catastrophic” injuries.
Alexander’s daughter “faces a future filled with unimaginable challenges due to the defendant’s reprehensible conduct, but today’s verdict holds him accountable and brings a measure of justice to her and to all those profoundly affected by this case,” said Deputy District Attorney Rikole Kelly in a statement following the verdict.
In 2022, Keyonna Watts, the mother of the young girl, discussed the subject with The Shade Room. When their daughter was admitted to the hospital, she and Alexander were living on different coasts; she was in Atlanta, Georgia, and Alexander had moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in rap.
A detective informed Watts that her kid was “bleeding from the brain,” she told TSR. Alexander informed her over FaceTime that she had “passed out standing in time-out.”
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According to documents TSR was able to collect from the girl’s ER visit, a portion of her skull was removed in order to relieve the pressure caused by the hemorrhage.
According to court documents, Alexander claimed that his daughter was a “bed-wetter” and that he would “[punish] her by making her do rigorous exercises with an element of physical abuse, including but not limited to hitting her with speaker wire, using boxing gloves, and using a belt.”
Alexander’s sentencing is scheduled for December 12. The maximum penalty for him is seven years to life.
