A 24-year-old Roseville man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter recently lost the right to parent his two young daughters.

Judge Tracey Yokich last month terminated the parental rights of father Jonathan Jones and Amanda Yurkus, the mother of one of the two girls following a trial in Macomb County Circuit Court.

Jones’ parental-rights termination was based on the accusation that Jones fatally beat Ivy Yurkus, the biological daughter of Amanda Yurkus, last May. He is charged with first-degree, felony murder and child abuse as a result. Yurkus lost rights over a daughter shared with Jones as well as her 8-year-old son fathered by another man based on her failure to protect Ivy from Jones.

During the parental-rights trial, Jones tried to blame the injuries to Ivy on Yurkus’ son but the judge agreed with medical experts who indicated that the amount of force used to kill Ivy exceeded the amount that could be inflicted by the boy, Rodnick said.

Ivy died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen, according to a medical examiner.

“This is an unfortunate case for everyone involved,” said Rodnick, who is not representing Jones in his criminal case.

Jones, who is charged with first-degree, felony murder and child abuse, faces a Jan. 24 preliminary examination in 39th District Court in Roseville in the criminal case.

Jones attended the parental-rights trial but remains in custody in the county jail in lieu of a $5 million bond.

Authorities allege the abuse took place about 4:30 p.m. May 3 after Amanda Yurkus went to work and left Ivy and her two half-siblings in the care of Jones at their home on Galloway Street near 12 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue. Following the alleged beating, Jones drove the three children to the nearby restaurant where Yurkus was working so she could provide aid. Someone from the restaurant called 911, and Ivy was rushed to St. John Hospital & Medical Center in Detroit, where she died the following day at 7:49 a.m., police said.

Jones was charged in November.

Yurkus has previous convictions in Oakland County for unarmed robbery, resisting or assaulting police and fleeing police.

In October, in an unrelated matter, Jones was sued in circuit court, accused of driving a white 1997 GMC Safari on Jan. 22, 2017, and “violently striking several vehicles,” including one driven by plaintiff Birgit Pridoehl, at the intersection of Utica Road and Metropolitan Parkway in Clinton Township.

“Jones failed to stop in an assured clear distance,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit says Pridoehl suffered “severe and disabling injuries,” although the attorney for Jones’ auto insurance company says in the defense response that her injuries were not caused by the accident and did not cause a “serious impairment of body function or a permanent and serious disfigurement.” The attorney also claims Pridoehl was more than 50 percent at fault.