A 22-year-old man has been charged with the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl whose burned body was found in an abandoned house.
Darnell Cheatham had been dating Mariha Smith's aunt around the time he is accused of brutally attacking her in July 2011.
The Detroit, Michigan man had been a suspect from the moment Mariha's body was found, with her skull crushed, but police didn't have enough evidence to convict him until Monday.
Cheatham is accused of snatching Mariha from the house she shared with her mother, Konesha, and aunt, Quanita, who he was in a relationship with.
He has been charged with first-degree premediated murder, felony murder, arson, torture, child abuse, and dismemberment and mutilation of a body, the Huffington Post reported.
Police believe he took the little girl at about 3.30am to an abandoned house a mile from her Burlingame home. He then allegedly raped and killed her, before setting fire to the mattress her body was left on.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2471517/Darnell-Cheatham-raped-year-old-crushing-skull-setting-her.html
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