CHARLOTTE — A Charlotte man is accused of assaulting his girlfriend so severely that she later delivered a stillborn fetus. Police said Arnold Noe Santos Deras turned himself in and is charged with the murder of an unborn child and several related offenses.
Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department were called to the 800 block of Farmhurst Drive in south Charlotte following a domestic assault incident on Sunday.
A woman reported being physically assaulted by her boyfriend, Arnold Noe Santos Deras.
The victim initially declined hospital transport but later received medical treatment where she delivered a 15-week-old stillborn fetus.
On Thursday, Santos Deras turned himself in to the CMPD Eastway Division.
He was charged with multiple offenses, including murder of an unborn child, assault on a female, and assault by strangulation.
The charges also include breaking and entering, misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, and battery of an unborn child.
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