TROY, Mo. (AP) - An eastern Missouri man has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for causing the death of a 2-year-old boy.
Douglas Rivette of Troy was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Demetrius Washington Jr., admitting to kicking the child in the stomach so hard that he fell backward into a door.
Demetrius was the son of Rivette's girlfriend.