CHICAGO - A man found guilty of torturing and beating to death his 12-year-old daughter was sentenced Thursday to natural life in prison.
Larry Slack, 46, of Chicago will have no chance of parole under the sentence handed down by Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas Sumner on the first-degree murder conviction. Slack also was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the aggravated battery of his son, the Chicago Tribune reported on its Web site.
"Of the cases I have presided over myself or seen go. through this building, this situation, bar none, is the worst I have ever seen or heard," Sumner said when he sentenced Slack.
Jurors found Slack guilty last month of Laree Slack's whipping death in November 2001. Slack's other children say he tied their sister to a bed frame, put a gag in her mouth, partially stripped her and then beat her chest, back and legs with an electrical cord for more than two hours.
Prosecutors said Slack was upstairs watching a DVD as his daughter died of internal bleeding in a basement bedroom.
The Slack children said the beating began as a punishment because they could not find their mother's lost credit card. They say their father singled Laree out for more violence because she wouldn't withstand the beating quietly.
Slack's defense attorneys had argued that he hadn't meant to kill the girl.
Slack's wife, Constance, who had worked as a nurse at La Rabida Children's Hospital on the Chicago's South Side, pleaded guilty to murder charges and was sentenced May 1 to 25 years in prison. AP
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