Dalton R. Davis was sentenced Wednesday to 65 years in prison for brutally killing his then-girlfriend’s 5-week-old daughter.
The 22-year-old Jay County man offered no explanation about what had compelled him to take the baby outside last Sept. 28 and, holding the infant by her legs, slam her head and back down onto the pavement two or three times.
He also uttered no words of remorse, or anything approaching an apology to his victim’s mother, or the others in the courtroom who had loved young Lillian Grace Lloyd.
In fact, Davis wasn’t even in the courtroom for his sentencing hearing. He had waived his right to attend, and participated in the hearing via a video link to the nearby Jay County jail.
“I’ve never seen anything as senseless or barbaric as this,” said Jay Circuit Court Judge Brian Hutchison, who accepted the plea agreement calling for Davis to receive the 65-year sentence for a murder conviction.
