GUILTY FL - Charlie Brame, 3, raped & murdered, Orlando, 23 Nov 2014

The man accused of a sexually abusing and beating a 3-year-old girl before she died in November is now facing a first-degree murder charge, according to court documents. The additional charge was filed against Pascal Christian Kaufmann on Wednesday after an autopsy revealed that Charlie Brame died from "blunt-head trauma"...

Doctors found swelling on her scalp, blood pooling in her skull, according to Orlando police investigators. There were also signs of recent and severe sexual and physical abuse on her body, officials allege.

Charlie's mother told police Kaufmann moved from Germany to the United States in August. She and Kaufmann were married about a week before the incident, according to the report.

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Liggett, 30, worked two jobs: at a bar at nights and as a permits analyst for Orange County's building-safety department during the day.

She needed her 19-year-old, unemployed husband to help out with child care...

Kaufmann took daily GoPro videos of them singing or going to the park to show that they got along, according to evidence gathered by the state...

"Some days she loved him and she was hugging on him. And then some days she didn't … I just thought it was because he was taking my attention."...

"I don't want you to think it's like a mail-order — like an Internet thing or something like that," she said. "Like, I've known him my whole life, and our families are very close."

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A 20-year-old German national pleaded no contest to charges of second-degree murder and molestation in the death of his new wife's 3-year-old daughter, court records show.

Pascal Kaufmann was sentenced to 41 years in prison and deemed a sexual predator at a hearing last week, according to the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office. A judge ordered Kaufmann on probation for life as a sexual offender.

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