A young father was jailed for 25 years today for severely burning his baby daughter when he put her in a microwave and turned it on for up to 20 seconds.
The jury in Galveston, Texas, rejected Joshua Mauldin's claims he was insane when he stuffed his two-months-old daughter Ana in the microwave and convicted him of felony injury to a child.
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Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence.
Mauldin's attorney asked jurors to consider Mauldin's long history of mental illness and give him probation so he could be treated outside prison.
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