ADDICT GETS 25 YEARS IN TODDLER’S TORTURE-SLAYING

PFMLIT BABYSITTERS, General, SENTENCING, SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF TRUST

Trent Fouts, 35, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the torture killing of a toddler left in his care.  He was convicted of murder in March for the 1997 murder of 1 1/2 year old Joshua Massengill.  According to the Associated Press, the boy was found propped up against a wall at a convalescent hospital.  His body was scalded and bruised and the skin on his genitals was nearly rubbed off.  He had been struck with a narrow rod nearly two dozen times.  Fouts said he had gotten high just before the boys mother left.  He was acquitted of a molestation charge.