An eight-year-old girl has died after being forced to jump on a trampoline for hours on end as a cruel punishment. Daniel Schwarz, 44, and Ashley Schwarz, 34, of Odessa, Texas, are facing murder charges after being arrested on Monday over the little girl's death.
The young girl, Jaylin, was pronounced dead at the pair’s home on August 29 after police responded to a emergency call, CBS7 reports.
Daniel and Ashley Schwarz were not Jaylin’s biological parents, but were the girl’s guardians, her relatives told the local TV news outlet.
They had forced the girl to jump on the trampoline for an extended amount of time as a punishment, police say, and didn’t allow her any water despite temperatures reaching up to 43C on the surface of the play
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