Texas man gets 40 years after no contest plea in death of toddler

Under an agreement with prosecutors, Christopher Davila, 37, of San Antonio, entered the plea to a charge of injury to a child, a first-degree felony, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

Davila was also fined $1,500 and was given credit for time served, KSAT reported.

The toddler was found dead a week later in a field, and investigators determined that the kidnapping was a “staged event,” the television station reported.

In a letter he wrote to the newspaper in 2019, Christopher Davila said that while caring for the child he had smoked some marijuana.

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