USA - Ohio. Jury recommends death sentence for Glen Bates

Hamilton County jury recommends death sentence for Glen Bates, 34, Black, found guilty of killing his 2-year-old daughter. Judge Megan Shanahan will announce Oct. 17 whether she will accept the jury's recommendation. Bates was found guilty Monday of charges including aggravated murder and child endangering in the death of his daughter, Glenara. The cause of death was acute and chronic head injuries, battered child syndrome and starvation. The most serious head injuries, prosecutors said, happened when Bates, 34, swung Glenara into a door frame "like a baseball bat." Prosecutors said that act was intended to kill Glenara. The incident was described by Glenara's now-10-year-old sister during testimony. When she died on March 29, 2015, she weighed 13 pounds. Bates' onetime girlfriends. The girl's mother, 30-year-old Andrea Bradley, also faces the same charge and is scheduled for trial next month.