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Central Texas Man Pleads Guilty In Toddler’s Death
A Central Texas man pleaded guilty Monday to murder in the death of a toddler, whose mother is awaiting trial later this month on a related charge.
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(Jan. 14, 2008) A Copperas Cove man pleaded guilty to murder in Gatesville district court on Monday morning just as a jury was being seated in his capital murder trial for the March 2007 death of a toddler.
Antoine Marshon Shields, 28, was accused of the March 24, 2007 murder of Keynen Jacobe Vanhardenberg Wade by "striking, or causing (the child) to strike an unknown object or surface, according to the indictment against him.
Shields also pleaded guilty to injury to a child.
He must serve 30 years in prison before he's eligible for parole.
Prosecutors were not seeking the death penalty, but he would have faced a life term without parole had he been convicted of capital murder.
Shields and Tashawna Vanhardenburg were arrested after their 35-month-old son died in a local hospital.
Vanhardenberg is charged with injury to a child for her part in not seeking immediate medical attention for her son and for not attempting to prevent the injuries the child sustained, according to an indictment.
Her trial is to begin on Jan 22, Vanhardenberg's attorney told News 10.
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hello,well it's Doris his first baby's mother and I just pray for him.His son will live with his family soon and I trust that GOD has things the way they are because everyone has a path from blind to clear if you ever allow yourself to see...
I know Antoine my oldest child's father,who is 12 with the same name did'nt kill that baby.He won't yell at children.Tashawna as a long history of child abuse.
the mother of this baby was only tring to make a better life for her self and her children you people not knowing how she grew up can't point a finger she is a very love person and if she was able to save her son she would have she was only gulty of failing to protect a child now tell me how is a 22 year old girl pregnet and 4 other babys going to fight a man how is as crazy as this man who took her away from her family and killed her son because he was mad the child wasen't his
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