A Montgomery County 16-month-old had cracked ribs and a dislocated femur in what a judge called “probably one of the worst” child-abuse cases she'd seen in 24 years.
The murder case against Marlon Melendez rests on brutal injuries that police say he privately inflicted on a 16-month-old boy: broken ribs, a dislocated femur, a perforated intestine.
Melendez, charged with second-degree murder and child abuse leading to the death of Zavier Giron, was ordered held without bond by Montgomery District Judge Amy Bills, who called the allegations “probably one of the worst” cases of child abuse she had seen in 24 years as a judge and prosecutor. The case began at 4 a.m. March 11, when police and paramedics were called to the apartment for an unresponsive child. The boy was taken Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:03 a.m.Doctors also observed bruises and scratches on the boy’s abdomen, head and arms, which his mother “offered no explanation for,” the detectives asserted in court papers.
Melendez then squeezed the lemon in the face of the boy, who was clearly distraught on the video, according to court records. His mother returned to the table about two minutes later. That process, investigators now assert, revealed that at 6 a.m. on March 11 — only 57 minutes after the boy had died and while police were still in the apartment — Melendez deleted his internet search history. The phone analysis revealed another search history deletion just hours before he’d come to talk to the detectives on March 29, according to court records.
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