SYLVANIA, Ohio — UPDATE: Anthony Genna was arraigned in the Lucas County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, Oct. 26. A judge set his bond at $2 million.
Anthony Genna, 20, was arrested as a suspect and booked in jail on aggravated murder in the homicide of his five-month-old daughter, Aria Genna, according to the Sylvania Police Department.
Sylvania police were called to a home in the 8200 block of Little Road Wednesday morning on a report of a five-month-old with difficulty breathing.
Aria was transported to the Toledo Children's Hospital, where she later died. According to an autopsy report, the cause of death was blunt force head trauma.
Police said Anthony, Aria, her mother and grandmother lived at the home, but just Anthony and Aria were at the home at the time of the call.
According to Sylvania police, Anthony was taken into custody without incident. Sylvania Court set his bond at $2 million. He is due back in court on Nov. 16 for a pretrial and Dec. 19 for a trial.
This is the second alleged domestic violence homicide of a child in Lucas County in eight days. 3-year-old Declan Hill was pronounced dead on Oct. 7 from blunt force head and neck trauma. Michael Kitto is in custody and has been indicted by a Lucas County grand jury on four charges in Hill's death.
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