The Allentown man who said he beat his wife's 2-year-old daughter because he thought she was a “spoiled princess” who needed toughening up has been ordered to spend at least a decade in prison.
Twenty-five-year-old Brandon Bishop was sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 20 years for the repeated assaults on the little girl.
Police say the abuse was reported by a relative who noticed the girl missing clumps of hair and walking with a limp. Bishop had moved into his fiancée’s apartment in March 2011 and beat the 2-year-old over a course of three months.
In a video played for the court, Bishop showed a police detective how he kicked, punched, choked and dropped the girl after picking her up by her hair and dropping her onto a concrete floor. He also choked the girl and suffocated her by covering her mouth with his hands from 30 seconds to a minute.
He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in December.
The girl's mother admitted knowing about the assaults and failing to alert police. Candace Watts was sentenced Tuesday to 1 year in prison.
The couple was married a few days before their arrests in June.
The girl is now in custody of her father.
Man Who Beat ‘Spoiled Princess' Toddler Gets 10-20 Years
Allentown man gets prison for beating his wife's 2-year-old daughter to “toughen her up”
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