ROBERT PHILBIN - 2 yo (2010) - Fort Worth TX

FORT WORTH -- A 20-year-old convicted sex offender is headed back to
prison for fatally injuring his fiancee's 2-year-old son last year.Ryan
Durham, who was initially charged with capital murder in the death of
Robert Philbin, reached a deal with prosecutors Thursday and received a
40-year sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to the lesser charge of
serious bodily injury to a child. If he had gone to trial and been
convicted, Durham could have been sentenced to life without parole.He has to serve at least half his sentence before he is eligible for parole."This
type of crime is always difficult to understand, but it is our hope
that Robert's family has some closure and this is one step toward
healing," prosecutor Alana Minton said.Officials have said Durham
had been caring for Robert on Feb. 10, 2010, while the child's mother
and stepgrandfather were at work. At some point, Durham phoned the
mother and stepgrandfather and also called 911 after the child "started
breathing heavily" and became worse. The child was taken to Cook
Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, where he died the next day.Durham
initially told investigators that he heard the child fall twice from a
toilet inside their home in the 3900 block of Spencer Street in north
Fort Worth, but the boy's injuries were not consistent with that story.
The Tarrant County medical examiner later ruled that Robert died from a
blunt-force head injury and ruled his death a homicide.Durham was
a paroled sex offender who had been sentenced to four years'
incarceration in September 2003 for indecency with a 7-year-old girl and
a 6-year-old boy.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/25/2950882/man-20-sentenced-to-40-years-for.html#ixzz1Hl8oXs00

Poster's note: We must have missed this case last year. This creep could be out in 20 years and he will still only be 40 years old!

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