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22, 2014
Father Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing Daughter
Newark – Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced today that Travis Hartsfield, Jr., 28, of Newark was sentenced to life in prison for the March 2011 murder of his 20-month-old daughter, Asiyah Hartsfield.
The Honorable Michael L.
Ravin, Judge of the Superior Court, imposed sentence. In October of this year a jury convicted Hartsfield of murder and endangering the welfare of a child. Today, Judge Ravin sentenced Hartsfield to life which is 75 years under New Jersey law.
Under the No Early Release Act, he must serve 85 percent of his sentence before he is eligible for parole.
Hartsfield, who was unemployed, was supposed to be taking care of the baby while the mother went to one of her two jobs.
Angry that the child would not eat, the state maintained he punched in her in chest, causing the internal bleeding that killed the baby.
Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Michele Miller, who tr