Horrifying details of the alleged grizzly murder of a teenage North Carolina girl who  was slaughtered by her own father were revealed in court Monday. The suspect accused man reportedly, had turned himself into police and confessed to the crime.

Authorities say Joshua Burgess, 32, of Wesley Chapel, North Carolina walked into the Union County Sheriff’s office around 9.30am on Sunday and told dispatchers he had killed his teenage daughter, Zaria Burgess, of Monroe, North Carolina, inside his home on Hampton Meadows Road, according to WSOC-TV.
15-year-old Zaria had come to visit her dad for the weekend.
According to the medical examiner, the teen died from a “sharp force injury to the neck.”
Members of the public sitting in the gallery gasped during Joshua Burgess’s Monday morning arraignment hearing when officials told the court how he’d confessed to strangling his daughter before slitting her throat.
Prosecutor have not given a motive or explain the details that led up to the unthinkable alleged crime.

‘It’s just pure evil,’ Union County Sheriff spokesman Tony Underwood told reporters.
The accused homicidal father was seen hanging his head and avoiding eye contact during the courtroom proceedings.
Joshua made a photo of Zaria his Facebook profile picture on June 23. Previous Facebook posts showed him wishing his daughter happy birthday, even calling her his ‘princess.’
The teen’s cousin, Dytaysha Wadswort, told reporters Zaria was kind girl who loved her family.

  ‘She was so young and nobody deserves to leave this world like that, especially by someone they thought was gonna protect them and be there for them.’