(March 26, 2008)--A jury Wednesday in Galveston sentenced a young father to 25 years in prison for severely burning his infant daughter when he put her in a microwave and turned it on for up to 20 seconds.
Jurors deliberated for 6 1/2 hours over two days before sentencing Joshua Mauldin Wednesday.
They also fined him $10,000.
Jurors Tuesday rejected Mauldin's claims that he was insane when he stuffed his daughter, Ana, in a Galveston motel microwave last May and convicted the 20-year-old of felony injury to a child.
Punishment could have ranged from probation to life in prison.
Prosecutors asked jurors not to forget what Mauldin had done to his then-two-month-old daughter and give him a life sentence.
The defense asked jurors to consider Mauldin's long history of mental illness and give him probation.
The girl is now with other relatives.
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