
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man has been sentenced to nearly three years in state prison after a 10-month-old girl died after he left her in a hot car while he and his partner smoked marijuana.
Twenty-nine-year-old Seth Jackson was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison for one count of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors say the child, Kadillak Poe-Jones, died in July after she was left in the car when the temperature was about 90 degrees.
Jackson was originally charged with felony first-degree murder after investigators found he was smoking marijuana with his partner at their home while the child was outside. The men have said they believed the girl was playing with other children inside the house. They realized she was outside when they heard an infant crying on television.