CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man was arrested after an assault on his girlfriend resulted in the death of an unborn baby, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Thursday.

Police say a woman was assaulted by her boyfriend at her home on Farmhurst Drive on Sunday, Nov. 2. She refused to be taken to the hospital.

On Monday, the woman received medical treatment at a hospital, where she gave birth to a 15-week-old stillborn fetus.

Arnold Noe Santos Deras, 21, turned himself in to CMPD on Thursday. He's charged with murder of an unborn child, assault on a female, breaking and entering, battery of an unborn child, misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, and assault by strangulation.

Santos Deras is being held in Mecklenburg County jail. Court records and a mugshot were not readily available

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