CHRISTOPHER DOTSON - 6 yo (2009) - Dallas TX

A Dallas County jury sentenced a Dallas man to 80 years for killing the 6-year-old son of his girlfriend.

Anthony Beckett



Earlier Wednesday, the same jury found Anthony Beckett guilty of injury
to a child in the death of 6-year-old Christopher Dotson. Beckett repeatedly dunked the child under water in a bathtub and beat
him until his muscles bled in January 2009. The blood from his muscles
then filled his body. Beckett told Dallas police he thought the boy would grow up and kill him. One of Beckett's defense attorneys, Russell Wilson told jurors that they should consider Beckett's mental illness when deciding his sentence. Beckett's history includes a hospitalization at age 21, when he was
experiencing delusions. But prosecutors contend those delusions were
from smoking marijuana laced with embalming fluid, commonly called
"wet." Beckett denied on the witness stand that he ever smoked "wet"
but said he had used drugs.