Teh One Who Knocks
02-13-2012, 10:46 PM
By Rachel Quigley - The Daily Mail
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A man said to be as big as a linebacker brutally beat his girlfriend's son, 11, to death for nine hours because he wouldn't vacuum the apartment.
Anthony Bush, 29, from Pittsburgh, was charged on Sunday with homicide and child endangerment charges after Cynthia McKee returned home from work to find her son Donovan naked, bloody and barely breathing on the floor.
Bush admitted beating the boy to a bloodied pulp to police, saying he used wooden sticks and a belt after he refused to vacuum the apartment.
He said that during the beatings, the stick broke and he ordered the boy to clean up the pieces. Then the 29-year-old got a new stick and continued the beating. Bush told police he used at least three sticks.
He told police: 'I did it. I did it. It's my fault.'
At one point, he tried to sew a wound in his arm with a needle and thread.
Ms McKee's other son, who is five years old, is said to have witnessed the beatings.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, officers went to an apartment at Rochelle Towers on Knox Avenue at 11:45pm on Saturday - two hours after Cynthia came home from work.
Donovan was taken to Mercy Hospital, Uptown, and later to Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville, where he was pronounced dead.
A medical examiner concluded he died of severe injuries to his head and body.
When Ms McKee called police, Bush - who is six feet five inches - tried to get her to say her son had fallen out the window but she refused.
Investigators told the Tribune Review they found blood-stained sheets, tissues and a belt, wood sticks, metal bars and blood on the ceiling and walls in Donovan's bedroom.
Bush is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
http://i.imgur.com/sGQei.jpg
A man said to be as big as a linebacker brutally beat his girlfriend's son, 11, to death for nine hours because he wouldn't vacuum the apartment.
Anthony Bush, 29, from Pittsburgh, was charged on Sunday with homicide and child endangerment charges after Cynthia McKee returned home from work to find her son Donovan naked, bloody and barely breathing on the floor.
Bush admitted beating the boy to a bloodied pulp to police, saying he used wooden sticks and a belt after he refused to vacuum the apartment.
He said that during the beatings, the stick broke and he ordered the boy to clean up the pieces. Then the 29-year-old got a new stick and continued the beating. Bush told police he used at least three sticks.
He told police: 'I did it. I did it. It's my fault.'
At one point, he tried to sew a wound in his arm with a needle and thread.
Ms McKee's other son, who is five years old, is said to have witnessed the beatings.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, officers went to an apartment at Rochelle Towers on Knox Avenue at 11:45pm on Saturday - two hours after Cynthia came home from work.
Donovan was taken to Mercy Hospital, Uptown, and later to Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville, where he was pronounced dead.
A medical examiner concluded he died of severe injuries to his head and body.
When Ms McKee called police, Bush - who is six feet five inches - tried to get her to say her son had fallen out the window but she refused.
Investigators told the Tribune Review they found blood-stained sheets, tissues and a belt, wood sticks, metal bars and blood on the ceiling and walls in Donovan's bedroom.
Bush is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.