Barstow couple sentenced to life for torturing a 3-year-old to death
Above: A victim of child abuse (not the same one mentioned in the blog).
A Barstow couple was sentenced to life in prison for torturing the man’s 3-year-old son to death.
It isn’t clear why the couple did what they did, but when police found the boy he was dead with extensive external and internal injuries. And get this … it was the child’s birthday. This was back in 2006.
Well, they got their punishment. From the Desert Dispatch, “on Thursday Judge Steve Mapes at the Barstow courthouse sentenced Thomas Othy Darthart, 27 and Moy Yamill Ellis, 32 to life in prison without possibility of parole for the murder of Thomas Timothy Fredric Darthart. The couple also received 25 years to life for assault on a child resulting in death, seven years to life for torture and ten years for child abuse resulting in death.”
