A dad has been cleared of charges regarding his daughter’s murder after his son admitted that he caused the death.
Anthony Michael Sanders was accused of suffocating his two-year-old daughter, Ellie Mae, in 2015.
Police thought that Sanders had killed his daughter because she would not be quiet.
The 33-year-old denied the charges. He was arrested in 2016 and was held in a Fort Worth prison.
This week, local news agency Star Telegram reported that the charges against Sanders had been dropped after his seven-year-old son confessed to causing the death.
Ellie’s mother, Cassie Wright, said that her son had hit the toddler with a pillow “that was too heavy to get off the girl.”
“He was unable to move the pillow. He said that the pillow was a rectangle and was heavy. It had something zipped inside which made the pillow heavy.”
The boy didn’t tell anybody what had happened because he “didn’t want to get in trouble.”
Image via Watuaga police department.
