New details surrounding a Worcester family where a father is facing charges in connection to his 4-year-old daughter’s death.
25 Investigates has learned the Department of Children and Families was at some point involved in the life of four-year-old A’zella Sky Ortiz who died after sustaining multiple, serious injuries in a Worcester apartment last week . But it appears there was no current, open DCF case at this time of her death. And, it’s unclear whether the family’s case ever went before the courts.
On Wednesday morning, 34-year-old Francisco Ortiz appeared in Worcester’s Central District Court for a dangerousness hearing a week after he was arraigned on charges of assault and battery on a child with substantial injury, permitting substantial injury to a child, assault and battery, two counts of permitting injury to a child, and reckless endangerment of a child.
Disturbing details revealed in court show that a 911 call placed by Ortiz on October 15 determined his 4-year-old daughter was “cold to the touch” and “appeared to have feces covering parts of her body” while lying unresponsive on the floor. She sustained multiple serious injuries and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter…