Nearly two hours after his daughter was found dead Ruiz-Martinez sent messages to a chatroom on Discord falsely claiming she drowned in a pool, the affidavit said. He sent another message an hour later warning people to “never leave your kid with no one” while claiming law enforcement kept him in the dark about what happened.

An Osceola man made his first court appearance in Osceola County Court Wednesday after a months-long investigation into the death of an infant.

A Florida father has been arrested after his infant daughter drowned in a bathtub as he allegedly played video games.

A dad put his daughter in the bathtub and went back to playing video games, then he returned to find her face down in the water, Florida authorities said. Joshua Ruiz-Martinez, 32, was arrested Feb. 11 on a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child, according to Osceola County records.