A Miller County man could face life in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to two counts of forcible sodomy.
Aaron Michael Fisher, 25, was charged with committing two counts of forcible sodomy against a 5-month-old girl on Oct. 27, 2009, while the child was left in his care at his Brumley area home.
Authorities opened an investigation into the incident when the child was taken to the Lake Regional Hospital's emergency room in Osage Beach.
Medical staff with the Lake of the Ozarks area Sexual Abuse Response Team (SART) immediately summoned local law enforcement upon assessing the child's condition, and seeing signs of apparent physical and sexual abuse.
The child was transferred for emergency treatment to University Hospital, Columbia, because of internal injuries and an apparent skull fracture and other broken bones.
Fisher's sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 6.
As a result of his guilty pleas, the Miller County Prosecutor's Office agreed to withhold filing any other charges from the case against Fisher.
Fisher pleaded guilty to "unclassified" felonies, and Miller County Prosecutor Matt Howard said the state law's only authorized punishment, on each count, is a life sentence in prison - without any eligibility for probation or parole until after a minimum of 30 years has been served.
The guilty pleas were entered without any agreement on sentencing, so the court will have discretion to decide whether the two mandatory life sentences will be served together, or consecutively to one another.
Officials permanently terminated the parental rights of both of the child's parents, after Howard's office filed the charges.
Fisher currently is serving a separate, four-year prison sentence at the Jefferson City Correctional Center, for damaging Miller County Jail while being held following his arrest.