CHICAGO (AP) - A judge has ordered the father of a 2-year-old found stabbed to death in Chicago held without bond on first-degree murder charges.
Cook County prosecutors said Friday that 37-year-old Rolando Ortiz re-enacted how he slit Mateo Garcia Aguayo’s throat as the father gave police a video confession.
Police responding to a call from relatives found the boy in a home in the city’s Little Village neighborhood. The boy had stab wounds so severe he was nearly decapitated.
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Authorities have said Ortiz stabbed the boy after becoming frustrated because he was keeping him awake. Police say Ortiz put the boy’s body in a garbage bag. He then fled and was arrested during a traffic stop in Kankakee County.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Ortiz had an attorney who could comment on his behalf.
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