By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
A St. Joseph man remains in the Buchanan County jail without bond, charged in the beating death of his six-year-old daughter.
37-year-old Dustin Beechner made a video appearance before Associate Circuit Judge Keith Marquart Wednesday morning.
Beechner is charged with a count of child abuse resulting in death.
St. Joseph police say Beechner led officers to the roof of his house on Mitchell Avenue where a child’s body was covered in a white sheet. She has been identified as Jozlyn Marie Beechner, beaten to death with an aluminum baseball bat.
Beechner was on probation for one of two past felony domestic assault convictions.