'Watched all this happen': Boyfriend beat girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter to death and left her in basement, authorities say

A Pennsylvania antheral is accused of beating his girlfriend's young girl and suffocating her to decease earlier leaving her successful the basement of a Philadelphia home.

Sean Hernandez, 21, faces aggregate charges, including murder, endangering the payment of a child, possession of an instrumentality of crime, recklessly endangering different person, and obstruction of justice, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office announced. Two others who were allegedly successful the location astatine the clip of the crime, 21-year-old Anthony Lowrie and 20-year-old Alycia McNeill, are accused of lying to constabulary astir what occurred, and they were charged with obstruction of justice.

The child's parent was not charged arsenic of Thursday, according to section Fox affiliate WTXF, but investigators judge she was besides contiguous astatine the location astatine the clip of the attack.

On Dec. 8, Philadelphia constabulary arrived astatine a location connected the 2100 artifact of South Beechwood Street successful the confederate portion of the city. It is unclear who called them oregon wherefore officers responded to the house. Once they made entry, they recovered 2-year-old Key'Monnie Bean successful the basement "unresponsive with terrible carnal injuries on her body."

She was transported to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, wherever she was pronounced dead.

During a property league providing updates connected the investigation, prosecutors suggested the kid whitethorn person been abused earlier the time of the attack. They besides stated their content that Hernandez — who besides went by the alias Raafi Gorham — killed Key'Monnie, and that the different 2 radical successful the location went on with him successful lying astir what truly happened.

"She evidently had signs of a precise superior beating," said Assistant District Attorney Ashley Toczylowski. "There's besides indications that determination possibly were objects used. … We besides person preliminary accusation that possibly her airway was compromised and possibly she was suffocated successful immoderate way."

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner was flooded with emotion arsenic helium talked astir the case.

"You don't person to beryllium a parent…" helium said portion wiping his eyes. "We should beryllium outraged astatine what happened to this 2-year-old."

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Ta'Shaun Walls, Key'Monnie's father, told NBC's Philadelphia affiliate WCAU successful an interrogation shared by the attorney's bureau that helium hopes Hernandez "rots successful jail" and "gets the max."

He past addressed Key'Monnie's mother.

"She watched each this happen," Walls claimed. "I consciousness she should beryllium successful jailhouse excessively and charged arsenic well. She watched this antheral spot hands connected my girl and did thing astir it. And past fled the country and fundamentally acted similar she was obscurity to beryllium found."

Hernandez remains successful jail; helium has a preliminary proceeding connected his charges scheduled for Jan. 5, 2026.