Arthur Morgan : N.J. man who tossed daughter off bridge found guilty of murder

Arthur Morgan III, who killed his own daughter by tossing her in the river, has been found guilty.

Arthur Morgan III found guilty

Morgan was charged with murdering his 2 1/2 year old daughter Tierra Morgan-Glover.

A Monmouth County jury returned a verdict of guilty Thursday against Arthur Morgan III in the 2011 murder of his 2½-year-old daughter, Tierra Morgan-Glover, who was found submerged in a stream in Shark River Park in Wall, strapped in her car seat with a car jack tethered to it.

The deliberations lasted 2 1/2 hours on Wednesday and jurors returned on Thursday announcing their verdict at 11:20am.

In addition to being guilty of murder, the jury also found Morgan guilty of child endangerment and interfering with Tierra’s custody.

The sentencing is scheduled for May 28, and Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mellaci Jr. ordered Morgan held without bail.

Morgan, 29, whose last known address was in Eatowntown, NJ faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of his daughter.

Horrifying incident

Tierra Morgan’s body was found on November 22nd, 2011 after several teenagers came across the gruesome discovery at Shark River Park in the Wall township border.

On November 21st, 2011 Arthur Morgan picked up his daughter in what her mother Imani Benton thought was going to be a daddy-daughter day out.

After the child did not return, Imani Benton reported the child missing. The next day she was later discovered dead in the river.

Prosecutors argued that Arthur Morgan instead of taking his daughter to see the movie ‘Happy Feet II’, took the child to the park, strapped her into her pink, flowered car seat, tethered the jack to the seat and tossed the contraption from a bridge about 17 feet below into the stream. They said Morgan murdered the child to get back at Benton, with whom he had a strained relationship.