Jeremiah

 =** Severely Injured Sacramento Toddler Dies **=

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A three year old Sacramento boy who was critically injured Tuesday night has died, and his father and stepmother will be charged with murder.

Jeremiah died on Thursday at 1:20 a.m. after he was taken off life support, at UC Davis Medical Center according to Malvola Dupre, the boy's grandmother. He was taken to the Tuesday night with traumatic head injuries after he reportedly fell in the bathroom of a Sacramento apartment, say police.

Police say Jeremiah's injuries were not accidental. They believe his injuries were caused by Jeremiah's father, Adrian McRath, and his stepmother, Dayshawna Lawrence.

During an interview with CBS13 on Wednesday Lawrence said she found Jeremiah lying unresponsive on the bathroom floor after she gave him "whoopings".

She says she was forced to discipline Jeremiah after he urinated on the kitchen floor. She says she spanked him on the bottom and other parts of his body, put him in time out and made him go to the bathroom. Seconds later, she found him on the floor.

"I went to go pick him up and he was all limp. So I grabbed him up, I'm screaming his name, and jumped in the shower and turned it on. As soon as the water hit him, he grabs my shirt," said Lawrence. "The police asked me, 'Did you think you slipped up and hit him in the back of the head?' I might have. I mean, I'm not gonna say that I actually didn't."

She says her husband, Adrian McRath, wasn't home at the time, but is known to discipline the child too.

"I know for a fact I didn't hit him on the head," said McRath.

When asked exactly what happened, Lawrence answered: "I think he may have passed out and hit his head on something."

McRath and Lawrence were arrested Wednesday and charged with child endangerment and inflicting corporal in injury to a child, and have been booked in the Sacramento County Jail. They will now be charged with murder.