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ATLANTA (ANF/Gray News) — A father in Georgia will spend life in prison for the 2022 death of his 10-year-old daughter.
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On Thursday, a Gwinnett County jury convicted 51-year-old William Linn McCue of felony murder along with several other crimes against his children.
McCue was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without parole, a fourth life sentence and an additional 120 years in prison.
“The treatment of these children was horrible,” District Attorney Patsy Austin-Gatson said in a statement. “This child’s death was unconscionable and preventable, and she and her siblings deserved better than they received from their parents.”
In June 2022, McCue and his wife Carina Wisniewski McCue were arrested on the Appalachian Trail after their daughter, Zoey, died in a house fire on Easter Sunday.
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Carina McCue pleaded guilty to first-degree cruelty to children, aggravated assault and false imprisonment, and agreed to testify against her husband. She was sentenced to 90 years in prison, the district attorney’s office said.
Investigators discovered that the 10-year-old girl had been sleeping on a wooden board balanced on a bathtub in a windowless bathroom. She died in that spot during the fire.
It was determined that the fire was started by her 15-year-old brother.
The other children in the family had evidence of abuse when they were examined by doctors after the fire. One child had healing lacerations on his back that he said were left by a belt, and another boy had a human bite mark on his skin.
Officials said the condition of the house before the fire was unsanitary, and the children had not attended school in quite some time.
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