A Utah man who
pleaded guilty to aggravated murder for punching and squeezing to death
the baby daughter of his girlfriend in an act of frustration was
sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.
Adam Joseph Barney, 24, received the sentence after
pleading guilty to the crime in March with the understanding that
prosecutors would not seek the death penalty, said Weber County Attorney
Chris Allred.
Barney committed the killing in August 2014 at a long-term- stay
hotel in Ogden, a community about 30 miles (48 km) north of Salt Lake
City, where he was looking after 14-month-old Kenzie La Buy and her two
young siblings.
He later confessed that he attacked the baby girl out of frustration,
punching her in the stomach and squeezing her, said Weber County
prosecutor Dean Saunders.
"The parents of this child will never have the ability to have
her grow up and enjoy her as she grows up," Saunders said.
Barney, after attacking Kenzie, placed her in a stroller
and went for a walk with the two other children and by the time he came
back to the apartment she was unresponsive, Saunders said. He called the
girl's mother, who was at work at a call center, and she told him to
call 911 which he did.
Under the sentence that Utah state court Judge W. Brent West
imposed on Barney, he faces the possibility of life in prison but
becomes eligible for parole after 25 years behind bars.
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