Father convicted in 16-month-old's death


Jury gives life sentence to man who fractured daughter's skull
By JENNIFER LATSON
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Aug. 25, 2008, 11:28PM

Jurors took less than an hour Monday to convict a man accused of hitting his 16-month-old daughter in the head so hard her skull fractured in three places.

India Andrus died in December 2006.

On Monday, a judge sentenced her father, 25-year-old Dennis Andrus, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Andrus denied ever hitting his daughter.

Prosecutors said Andrus was home alone with India and her 2-year-old sister while the girls' mother went to work on Dec. 4.

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