Screams ring out as paramedics try in vain to save Miami girl, 2, whose throat was cut ‘by her father,’ horrific new doorbell camera footage shows

Blood-curdling screams erupted as paramedics rushed to save a toddler after her father allegedly slit her throat and left her to die.

Jerónimo Duran is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse of his two-year-old daughter, Melody Alana Rose Duran.

Cameras at a neighbor’s house caught Duran Tuesday morning taking the little girl to his home in Pembroke Pines, south of Miami.

Duran, 33, left the house at 7:08 a.m. to pick up Melody from her mother Mona Rosita Clarke’s house and returned at 7:24 a.m.

The accused killer’s father got out of the car and walked slowly to the other side, seemingly distracted and lost in thought.

Melody’s grandmother Hilda Carballo arrived in her gray SUV at 9:32 a.m. and walked into the house to what she said was a disturbing scene.

Carballo allegedly saw Duran “on top of” Melody and “noticed that the child did not appear to be breathing,” police said.

She called 911 in a panic and said, “I need an ambulance quickly.”

“I’ll send the ambulance, but I need to know what’s going on,” a dispatcher responded.

‘I think the girl is unconscious. I don’t know what’s going on. The girl is pale and unresponsive,” the grandmother said in Spanish.

Another radioed paramedics to say she was “pale and unresponsive.”

Neighbors’ cameras captured a black Mercedes sedan speeding up to the house at 9:44 a.m. and Jorge Carballo, Duran’s stepfather, sprinting to the door.

He gave Melody CPR while he and Hilda Carballo waited for the ambulance to arrive about three minutes later.

Anguished screams could be heard in footage from the house.

Police and paramedics found Melody’s throat slit and rushed her to hospital, but she did not survive.

Officers found a bloody knife nearby and arrested Duran.

“Detectives were able to establish probable cause to charge him with first-degree murder,” said Pembroke Pines Police Sergeant Jason Palant.

“He was questioned by detectives, he spoke to detectives and through his statement it helped establish probable cause for his arrest.

“However, we do not have a motive at this time.”

Duran and Clarke were together for about a decade before splitting last year.

Clarke captioned their first photo together on April 21, 2014: “He is the reason for my happiness. I love my lion.’

Other photos show them having a costume party dance dressed as a banana and a fairytale princess, as well as celebrating Clarke’s 2021 pregnancy.

Melody was born in November 2021 and the couple seemed overjoyed to become parents for the first time.

But in May last year, Clarke filed for full custody of Melody, detailing Duran’s terrifying mental breakdown.

“The father suffers from mental illness… paranoia and anger issues (hitting the wall),” it said.

‘He also suffers from anxiety and… his behavior is erratic, aggressive, violent and dangerous to the mother and minor child.

“The father abused the family dog ​​(hitting him in the face)… the father has suicidal thoughts and has a history of hearing voices to end his life.”

In the document, Duran “chased the mother into a bedroom with the child in her arms and hit her with a fan.”

Clarke’s motion also alleged that he “abused the family dog ​​and punched it in the face.”

She asked Duran for a psychological evaluation because he “heard voices that took his life, sometimes while the child was alone with him.”

Clarke wanted Duran to take an eight-week parenting course and for a guardian ad litem to be appointed by the court to help Melody with supervised visits.

However, the court allowed Duran unsupervised visits in March, and he allegedly killed her during one of those visits on Tuesday.

Duran appeared in court Thursday, wearing a protective vest to prevent self-harm, where he was ordered held without bail in the Broward County Jail.

Palant said Duran could face additional charges as the investigation continues.