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Billy Bob Thornton’s Daughter Sentenced In Baby’s Death

By dreamindemon on | From dreamindemon.com

OCOEE, Fla. – At the same time Jose Baez was convincing a Florida jury that Casey Anthony did not murder her child, another defense attorney was in the same building trying to convince a jury that Billy Bob Thorton’s estranged daughter was not responsible for the death of her best friend’s 1-year-old daughter.

Back in October 2008, 32-year-old Amanda Brumfield was charged with murder after her best friend’s baby, Olivia Madison Garcia, died in her care. Garcia died after suffering a 3.5-inch fracture of her skull and bleeding on the brain.

Brumfield would tell investigators that the injury was caused by the girl falling out of her crib, but that after the fall the child seemed fine and even ate a banana. She explained the little girl’s lack of distress was the reason why she did not call for help until nearly two hours after the alleged fall, even sending her mother a text saying “Olivia can climb out of her playpen but has learned … she has perfected the landing.”

During the trial, the prosecution would argue there was no way Garcia would have suffered such a massive head injury from the short fall distance Brumfield described, and that it had to come from some other method. The defense argued their client was telling the truth but that the fall had simply made a pre-existing injury even worse.

In June of this year, the jury would buy some of the defense’s arguments, acquitting Brumfield of first-degree murder and aggravated child-abuse. They would, however, convict her of aggravated manslaughter. Today she was back in court to find out her sentence.

She got 20 years in prison.

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