Cicero Man Charged in Toddler's Beating Death

CICERO, Ill. (AP) — A 23-year-old Cicero man is accused of fatally beating his girlfriend’s son after the toddler urinated on him during a diaper changing.

Martin Alvarado Jr. was charged Sunday with first-degree murder in the beating death of 18-month-old Edwin Eli O’Reilly. He’s accused of striking the boy multiple times after becoming angry that he had been urinated on while changing the toddler’s diaper.

Cicero police officers and paramedics were called to a home Thursday on a report of an unresponsive child. Edwin was taken to a hospital, where he later died.

An autopsy determined the boy died of multiple blunt force injuries from child abuse, and his death was ruled a homicide.

It wasn’t immediately known if Alvarado has an attorney. He’s due in bond court Monday morning.

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