Dad gets 22 years for death of 18-month-old daughter (St. Genevieve, Missouri)

Dad RICARDO MEDINA has entered an Alford plea, and will be spending 22 years in prison for the abuse death of his 18-month-old daughter. Notice that Mom is facing endangerment charges--presumably because she was unable to stop a healthy 22-year-old male from throwing the baby.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/255584/3/Ricardo-Medina-receives-22-year-term-in-baby-daughters-death

Ricardo Medina receives 22 year term in baby daughters death6:04 AM, Apr 21, 2011
Written by dave keiser

Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (KSDK)-- The father of a baby girl has entered an Alford plea to a charge of child abuse resulting in death, and will spend the next 22 years in prison.

Under the Alford Plea, 23-year-old Ricardo Medina, of Bismarck, Missouri, did not admit any guilt; however, he conceded the state has sufficient evidence against him to win a conviction.

Medina was charged in the April 2009 death of his eighteen month old daughter, who was severely injured after being thrown more than 5 feet onto a hardwood floor at the family home in Washington County.

The child died later in a St. Louis hospital while undergoing treatment for a significant brain injury.

Medina entered his plea yesterday in Ste. Genevieve County where the case was moved on a change of venue. Jury selection in Medina's trial was scheduled to begin next week before Judge Kenneth Wayne Pratte.

The mother of the victim, 24 year old Jamie Scott of Bismarck is awaiting trial this November on child endangerment charges in the investigation.