Dad gets 36 years for murder of 2-year-old son (McKinney, Texas)

Dad TOBY CHRISTOPHER PAYNE has been convicted in the stranguation murder of his 2-year-old son. Not a word here about the little boy's mother.

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7518009.html

Texan gets 36 years in death of young sonAssociated Press
April 12, 2011, 10:25AM

MCKINNEY — A North Texas man who told a 911 dispatcher that he ignored “voices in his head” that tried to stop him from killing his toddler son is going to prison for the death.

The Dallas Morning News reports 35-year-old Toby Kristopher Payne of Allen pleaded guilty to murder and received a 36-year prison term.

Payne had been charged with capital murder over the April 2009 death of 2-year-old Sean Payne. The plea agreement was reached Friday in court in McKinney.

An affidavit indicates that the father, as emergency personnel tried to save his son, told one of the officers he had strangled the child.

Defense attorney Juan Carlos Sanchez says Payne has mental health issues.