The baby’s mother, Maureen Brand, had left the girl alone with him so she could purchase diapers and sell clothes.
However, she discovered her infant seriously hurt after being physically and sexually abused when she returned later that day.
The helpless infant, who was only a week old, was brought to the hospital and passed on the next day from head trauma.
Ferreira was ‘unhappy’ that Brand had left the baby with him and promised to return in five minutes, so he pleaded that he wanted to give his daughter’something to weep over’.
However, Ferreira became enraged and launched his horrifying attack on the baby girl when Brand failed to return and she started to scream,
