Daily Mail
March 15, 2014
A murder trial is set to start on Wednesday for a New Jersey man charged with tossing his 2-year-old daughter into a creek while she was still strapped in her car seat.
Arthur Morgan III of Eatontown is accused of weighing down the seat with a tire-changing jack so that it would sink.
He’s charged with killing his daughter, Tierra Morgan-Glover, in November 2011.
Her body was found in a creek inside a Jersey Shore park after he failed to return the girl to her mother following a trip to see a movie about dancing penguins.
An autopsy determined that the child was alive when she hit the water.
Morgan fled to California following the child’s death. He was found by a fugitive recovery task force.
Prosecutors say Morgan had asked the girl’s mother if he could take Tierra to see the movie Happy Feet Two.
When he did not return her after a few hours, the mother called police.
A warrant charging Morgan with child endangerment was issued before the girl’s body was found.
But an abduction alert for Tierra was not issued because the state had no reason to believe the child was in danger until she was found dead.
According to prosecutors, Morgan tossed the car seat, with his daughter strapped snugly inside its protective belts, from an overpass into the chilly water of the creek.