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Aiyana's father to be sentenced Dec. 15

STAFF REPORTS
November 4, 2006

Dec. 15 is the date set for sentencing of Christian Gauvin, who was convicted this week of a Class A felony in the fatal neglect of his 4-year-old daughter.

Lawyers in the case met Friday with Judge Thomas Busch in Tippecanoe Superior Court 2 and agreed on the sentencing date. About 12 hours earlier, a LaPorte County jury deliberated for about two hours before convicting Gauvin.

Gauvin's jury trial was moved to LaPorte County because of pretrial publicity, but the sentencing hearing will take place in Lafayette. It is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Dec. 15 and is expected to take most of the morning.

Gauvin, 35, could face 20 to 50 years in prison for participating in the abuse and torture of Aiyana Gauvin, who died March 16, 2005, from blunt force trauma to the head.

Gauvin's wife and Aiyana's stepmother, Michelle Gauvin, 34, was sentenced last week to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murdering the 4-year old.

Christian Gauvin admitted to police that he allowed and/or participated in what he referred to as harsh forms of punishment against Aiyana, including tying her hands and feet, taping her mouth shut, feeding her ground-up food, forcing her to sleep on the bare floor of a room in an unheated garage, and spanking her with a belt and a broken cutting board.

A year before her death, Christian Gauvin had gained custody of Aiyana after a juvenile court judge found her to be a Child in Need of Services because of neglect by Aiyana's biological mother, Christian's ex-wife.

 

 

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