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LIBERTY, Mo. -- Murder charges may be filed against a former Kansas City police officer accused of abusing a toddler.

Nick Minet, 28, appeared before a Clay County judge in handcuffs Monday.

Minet was charged with beating 2-year-old Alyssa Eickmeier in a Northland duplex last week. Minet was the live-in boyfriend of the girl's mother.

Court documents showed Minet admitted to shaking the girl and throwing her to the floor because she wouldn't stop crying. Relatives said the girl's brother witnessed the alleged incident.

Charges are expected to be upgraded since the toddler has died from her injuries.

Minet, who has three children of his own, was a three-year veteran of the Kansas City police force, KMBC reported. He resigned on Monday.

The girl's father, Chris Eickmeier, was in the courtroom on Monday. He said he was so upset he wanted to hurt Minet.

"I was very, very angry. This is something that would make a father go crazy for. He would want to do what's in my mind," Chris Eickmeier said.

"I had to do everything for keeping him out of that seat and doing what his head was telling him to do. I had to keep him there," friend Matt Myers said.