A video would be key evidence in the case against Hispanic Brandon Cervera, accused of starving and beating his 4-year-old son to death in Texas.
Cervera, of 28 years old, was arrested on Thursday and faces charges of injury to a child that caused his death.
Last August, the The victim was taken to a San Antonio hospital in an unconscious state. Another relative took the minor to the medical center.
When personal of the institution detected multiple bruises on the child’s body, alerted the Police.
Cervera declared to the authorities that the child himself had caused the injuries, according to local media reports.
However, investigators discovered that the child was malnourished and underweight.
KSAT television reported that video evidence recorded from a cell phone shows the torture to which the minor was subjected before he died.
In the images, the child begs for food and water; and, instead, he is forced to take hand sanitizer.
In a search of the man’s house, agents discovered that the refrigerator was locked, as well as the cabinet doors.