A man identified as Travis Stackhouse has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after he killed his five-year-old son over a slice of Father’s Day cake.
WuzupNigeria gathered that the charges originated from a June 2019 incident when officers were called to a home near 26th and Ruby in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where they found Stackhouse’s five-year-old son dead.
According to Fox 6 News, the boy’s caretakers had initially reported the child fell down the stairs, but since the police were not buying the report based on the injuries found on the boy, they decided to press further.
Eventually, the boy’s father, Stackhouse confessed to the investigators, admitting that he punched his son in the stomach and hit him in the face because he ate his Father’s Day cheesecake.
Appearing before a Judge identified as David Borowski on Tuesday, June 29, Travis Stackhouse was sentenced to 20 years in prison, plus an additional eight years of extended supervision, after pleading guilty to three felony charges in relation to his son’s death.
The charges included second-degree reckless homicide, neglecting a child, and child abuse/intentionally causing harm.
“The average person that hears about this case can’t understand how you would beat or punch any living human being as badly as you did in this case – let alone your own child,” Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Borowski said during the sentencing hearing.
“How you can live with yourself, even for a day, I don’t understand,” the judge added.
During the court case, prosecutors expressed concern for the safety of Stackhouse’s four other children.
Judge Borowski said the state could have sought a more severe charge against Stackhouse, but the state took into account that Stackhouse had admitted to the crime and ended a trial in order to enter a plea agreement.
