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Police respond to an anonymous 911 call to find Jim Mario Sessions, 9, dead,

with bite marks, abrasions, burns, bruises all over her tiny body.

Home surveillance shows homeowner, Taisheel Martin, sicking her 100-pound Wotwiler on the little girl, just nine.

Martin kicks Jamaria, who can't stand up after the attack,

drags her by the hair and continues to beat the child.

Nancy Jamaria's father, Lowwan Sessions, was given custody of his daughter under his release

from prison, let's shoot Jamaria's grandmother's dismay.

Althea Chinalt took care of Jamaria after her mother died of cancer.

Sessions shared a child with Martin, and when the couple broke up, sessions left Jamaria

in Martin's care.

Martin, who had four biological children, frequently punished Jamaria with exercise and beatings.

Loewan sessions, who accused Martin of abuse over text, is now charged with aggravated manslaughter and his daughter's death.

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