SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - The murder trial for a 24-year-old Sioux City man charged with killing his girlfriend’s 19-month-old daughter has been pushed back to next summer.
A judge on Wednesday agreed to continue Tayvon Davis’ trial to July 13, the Sioux City Journal reported. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed to the continuation.
Davis’ trial had been set to start next week. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, child endangerment resulting in the death of a child and multiple acts of child endangerment in the 2018 death of the toddler.
Prosecutors have said Davis was living with his girlfriend and frequently babysitting the child when officials believe the girl suffered numerous injuries at his hands in July and August of 2018. The toddler was unresponsive on Aug. 22, 2018, when she was taken to a Sioux City hospital. She died three days later at an Omaha hospital.
An autopsy showed the girl had several blunt force injuries to her head and a kidney and had suffered fractures to her vertebrae and ribs.
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