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NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 Police say a North Miami man failed to seek medical treatment for his girlfriend for a day after she suffered extensive second-degree burns and later died. Instead, they say he recorded disturbing videos showing her injured and unresponsive \u2015 including one where he sexually abused her.<\/p>\n

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Detectives said it appeared that Juan Andres Lopez, 41, tried to treat the 23-year-old woman with a cocktail of illegal drugs before finally seeking help.<\/p>\n

Police arrested Lopez on a sexual battery charge, as well as a host of drug charges, on Friday.<\/p>\n

Medics, cops respond to home<\/h3>\n

In an arrest warrant, North Miami Police Department Detective Brian Bohne described a series of discoveries investigators made after responding to the couple\u2019s home, located in the 400 block of Northwest 125th Street, on Jan. 27.<\/p>\n

Bohne wrote that the woman, whose name was redacted from the report, suffered burns to as much as 90% of her body. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics, after responding to the home, took her to Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center, where doctors pronounced her dead.<\/p>\n

After medics took the woman to the hospital, police said Lopez initially refused to let officers into the home \u201cafter consulting with an attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities said he told MDFR medics that the woman \u201ctakes ecstasy and has a drug problem and didn\u2019t feel the pain\u201d and that she \u201cwas last seen awake and breathing right before calling 911 when they were laying on the couch.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the NMPD warrant, Lopez claimed that the woman had burned herself after lighting a candle to mask the scent of rubbing alcohol, which she had used to clean up feces from a stray cat that had defecated inside the home after the couple took it in the previous night.<\/p>\n

Police said he claimed he recorded a video of himself telling her to go to the hospital and that she refused.<\/p>\n

They said they obtained a search warrant for the couple\u2019s home. Bohne noted that the woman was burned \u201cby still undetermined means,\u201d casting potential doubt on the rubbing-alcohol claim.<\/p>\n

Incriminating searches, messages<\/h3>\n

Authorities said data obtained from a cellphone search warrant showed searches from Jan. 26, the day before Lopez called first responders, including \u201chow 2 treat second degree burns,\u201d \u201cboric acid for burns,\u201d \u201coxy for burn pain\u201d and, using a street name for fentanyl, \u201cfetty distribution Miami charges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bohne wrote that the search history showed that Lopez \u201cwas aware of the extent of the (victim\u2019s) injuries and that he was not intending to seek the appropriate medical attention necessary for those injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cInstead, (Lopez) appears to be treating the injuries with various narcotics to the point that he believed that the (victim) had overdosed and he was concerned about the (home) being searched by the police,\u201d the detective wrote.<\/p>\n

Bohne wrote that text messages showed that Lopez received drugs he bought at around 1 a.m. on Jan. 27. Before that, authorities said he texted someone \u201cI\u2019m going try give her zquil or to make her sleepy or a xan (Xanax) so try (sic) get her in car drowsy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The warrant states he sent his girlfriend\u2019s sister a Facebook message on the afternoon of Jan. 27 stating, \u201cShe(\u2019s) going to OD\u201d and sent others text and WhatsApp messages indicating that he believed he was going to jail.<\/p>\n

Graphic videos<\/h3>\n

In the warrant, Bohne also described disturbing videos detectives found on Lopez\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n

Bohne said authorities said they first found videos taken between 4:48 and 6:11 a.m., showing the victim \u201dlying inside of a large black plastic tote filled with an unknown liquid,” appearing to be \u201csoapy water,\u201d inside of the shower.<\/p>\n

In the videos, police said Lopez speaks to her, telling her to \u201cstop sliding around on the floor,\u201d \u201cI poked a hole in that thing to make sure you don\u2019t drown in there\u201d and \u201cGod forbid I don\u2019t get back here in time, you\u2019re gonna unalive yourself,\u201d among other things.<\/p>\n

They said they would later find a video Lopez recorded about an hour earlier, which he later tried to delete.<\/p>\n

That video, Bohne wrote, showed Lopez \u201chumming joyfully\u201d as he inserted a sex toy into the visibly burned and unresponsive victim as he moved her body.<\/p>\n

Toxicology results would later reveal cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine, and methamphetamine in her blood, though authorities did not include any information in the warrant about whether medical examiners drew any conclusions about her cause or manner of death.<\/p>\n

Arrest and charges<\/h3>\n

Records show that following his arrest on Friday, a Miami-Dade judge ordered that Lopez be held without bond on charges of sexual battery of a physically helpless victim, methamphetamine trafficking and a host of other drug-related charges.<\/p>\n

As of Monday, Lopez, identified in an arrest report as a Texas-born security guard, was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether more charges were pending.<\/p>\n

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