A Texas couple is facing capital murder charges for forcing an 8-
year-old girl to jump non-stop on a trampoline in 110-degree
heat as a sadistic form of punishment, police said.
Daniel Schwarz, 44, and Ashley Schwarz, 34, of Odessa, were
arrested Monday in the death of the child who was pronounced
dead at the couple’s home on Aug. 29 when cops responded to a
medical call.
“Investigation revealed that the 8-year-old child had been
punished and was not allowed to eat breakfast and was required
to jump on the trampoline without stopping for an extended
period of time,” Odessa police said in a statement Monday.
The couple — who reportedly served as guardians of the girl,
identified by KOSA as Jaylin — also didn’t allow her to drink
any water while she was being punished, police said.
The high temp in Odessa — a city of roughly 123,000 in west
Texas — on Aug. 29 was 100 degrees, KWTX reported. But the
temperature of the trampoline read to be approximately 110
degrees and the ground was approximately 150 degrees, police
said Monday.
An autopsy released Thursday determined Jaylin died of
dehydration and listed her manner of death as homicide, police
said.
Daniel and Ashley Schwarz were not Jaylin’s biological parents,
but were the girl’s guardians, her relatives told KOSA.
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It’s unclear if the girl was in foster care, a police spokesman
told the Odessa American.
The couple was taken into custody at the Ector County Law
Enforcement Center, where neither had bonds set as of Monday
afternoon, the newspaper reported.
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