Couple Wanted For Abuse, Torture And Death Of Girl Captured: Cops

SUMPTER TOWNSHIP, MI – A mother and her boyfriend, wanted in connection with the death of her 4-year-old daughter, were captured in Lake Park, Georgia, according to police. Candice Diaz, 24, and Brad Fields, 28, are facing homicide, murder, child abuse and torture charges.

The couple were captured while driving near Lake Park, Georgia, and taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service in Macon, Georgia, the Sumpter Township Police reported.

Police had been searching for the couple since last week, when the death of 4-year-old Gabrielle Barrett, Diaz's daughter, was ruled a homicide by the Washtenaw County Medical Examiner's Office.

The medical examiner said on Jan. 3 the girl had suffered multiple traumatic injuries on several places on her body and at multiple ages, signs that indicated she had been a battered child.

Police had gone to Diaz's home on Monday, Jan. 1, after receiving a report of an unresponsive girl. There, officers found the girl's family members trying to revive her. The girl had suffered extreme burns to her extremities, according to police.

She was taken to an Ann Arbor hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

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