QUOTE said:A US teenager has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for his role in the death of a seven-year-old girl during an apparent imitation of the Mortal Kombat video game.
Lamar Roberts was sentenced on Friday in Greeley's Weld County District Court in Colorado.
The 18-year-old pleaded guilty last month to knowingly or recklessly causing a death through child abuse.
Prosecutors said Roberts and 17-year-old Heather Trujillo were baby-sitting Zoe Garcia on December 6, 2007.
They said the two kicked, hit and slammed Trujillo's half-sister to the floor.
Garcia's family were distraught during the sentencing.
"Please consider this — she will never have a life again," Garcia's mother, Dana Trujillo, said.
"She has an older sister that will never again see her sister," Garcia's aunt, Heather Juarez.
"My granddaughter was my princess and she meant everything to me and I don't believe this should have happened," said Veronica Lara.
Trujillo pleaded guilty in July to negligently causing death through child abuse. She must serve six years in Colorado's youth offender system
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