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Stepfather accused of killing 4-year-old Maleah Davis pleads guilty, gets 40 years in prison Nelson Oliveira
A Texas man accused of killing his 4-year-old stepdaughter, stuffing her body in a trash bag and dumping it on a roadside was sentenced to four decades in prison after accepting a plea deal Thursday.
Derion Vence, who was dating the victim’s mother at the time, insisted the child died from an accident even as he accepted responsibility for her death. An autopsy revealed that Maleah Davis died from “homicidal violence” in May 2019, about a month before her remains were found in Arkansas.
The 28-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to intentional injury to a child and tampering with a corpse during a court hearing in Harris County, authorities said. If the case had gone to trial, Vence would have faced up to life in prison.
Houston man gets 60 years for deadly stabbing of common-law wife
Xavier A. Martinez (Photo: Harris County District Attorney s Office)
HOUSTON - A Houston man was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the deadly stabbing of his common-law wife in 2018, officials say.
According to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Xavier Alejandro Martinez, 28, was convicted of murder by a jury after a week-long trial and sentenced by a judge on Monday.
He will have to serve half of the sentence before he can be considered for parole.
Martinez was charged in the deadly stabbing of Josselin Yamileth, 32, at their apartment in the 4000 block of Galveston Road on May 23, 2018.
"Whatever the judicial system is trying to do, whatever they have in mind to do, it's not going to work if it's not the right thing," Lydell Grant told ABC 13 in Texas.