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Indystar.com has updated the story. The child has passed on.
I think every adult bystander in that house needs to be jailed for life. Including the mother for staying with such a creep and not dying in the attempt to save her little baby girl.
As for chism himself, I won't say what I think should happen because it would be a crime, but it should be swift and sure. I cannot understand the pure evil and cruelty necessary to do such a thing. I cannot understand it.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The mother of a 14-month-old girl who authorities said watched as her child was beaten to death earlier this year pleaded guilty Wednesday to neglect of a dependent.
Rachel Goodman was charged in March. She is expected to testify against her former boyfriend, Tayuan Chism, 18, who was charged with murder.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A 19-year-old man who pleaded guilty to beating his girlfriend's 15-month-old daughter to death with a belt has been sentenced to 55 years in prison.
Marion County Judge Kurt Eisgruber sentenced Tayuan Chism on Thursday, 13 days after he pleaded guilty in the March 2009 death of Lillianna Goodmann. Eisgruber suspended 10 years of Chism's 65-year sentence, the maximum for murder.
Tayuan Chism, 19, was sentenced to 65 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, and two years probation, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.
Chism pleaded guilty in January to the murder of Lilliana Goodman...
"This is someone who was acting out of pure rage and literally beating an infant to death over the course of 90 minutes to two hours, striking her 50 times with a belt buckle," Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said in 2009.
Rachel Goodman pleaded guilty to charges of neglect of a dependent in the death of her daughter, Lilliana Goodman, at the hands of her boyfriend, Tayuan Chism, 18, in March of last year...
Rachel Goodman was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison with five years suspended and one year probation.