Tequila Crump and Ursula Owens

Tequila Crump, left, and Ursula Owens, right, are accused of beating a 5-year-old girl to death.

(Cleveland City Jail)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Two Cleveland women are accused of beating a 5-year-old girl to death.

The girl's mother, Tequila Crump, 27, and a friend, Ursula Owens, 36, are both charged with felonious assault.

They are jailed on $1 million bond after their first court appearance Wednesday in Cleveland Municipal Court.

More charges could be filed against the two because the girl, Ta Naejah McCloud, died on Tuesday.

The incident happened Friday in the 10700 block of Bryant Avenue, east of East 105th Street in the city's Glenville neighborhood, according to police.

Police said the women abused Ta Naejah, causing, "massive head trauma." The abuse also caused the girl to have several seizures, court records say.

Ta Naejah was initially taken to University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital about 11 p.m. Friday because she was having trouble breathing, according to police reports.

Crump told police that Ta Naejah had a seizure earlier that morning, police reports say.

The girl "appeared to have marks and bruising in various stages of healing," police reports say.

She died Tuesday at the hospital, according to court records and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner.

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