He couldn't have her

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So he took their 2 year old daughter, put her in a car seat, weighed it down with a tire iron and threw the baby into a lake.

In his mind the mother of his child was something to be owned. When denied that privilege he punished her by killing what she did love the most...a two year old child.

"This child was alive when she was placed in the water in pitch darkness, and had to suffer the unthinkable action of having water rush in and fill her lungs while strapped into that car seat," the judge said. "This child suffered before she died."

Prosecutors alleged Morgan killed the girl because he was angry that Benton had broken off their relationship.

"It was because he wanted Imani and he couldn't have her," prosecutor Marc LeMieux said. "So he took away the one precious thing in her life

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/05/28/3471730/dad-to-get-life-for-tossing-daughter.html#storylink=cpy