Nov 21 2007
Girl beaten, doused with hot water to be laid to rest
A 12-year-old girl who died after she was beaten with an electrical cord and doused with hot water as punishment for not doing her homework will be laid to rest Wednesday.
The funeral for the girl begins at 10 a.m. at the Crystal Rose Funeral Home at 9155 W. Van Buren in Tolleson.
Court documents say after the girl died, her family left her dead body in a bedroom until she started to smell.
Police arrested the girl’s father, 34-year-old Jeffrey Duchane Jr., and stepmother, 25-year-old Reiko Troupe, in the girl’s death.
Troupe was jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder and child abuse. Duchane was jailed on suspicion of child abuse.
Police also found the girl’s 9-year-old sister in the apartment. She is in protective custody.
Police several weeks ago said they believed the man to be involved in the “torturing” death of his 12-year-old daughter and the injury of her 9-year-old sister. Duchane told police that he just discovered his daughter Trenay’s bloody, severely burned body in his apartment on the 2500 block of West Ocotillo Road, near I-17 and Glendale Avenue.
Police later discovered that Duchane had known his daughter was dead for four days.