Joseph Moses Begs-His-Own, a Sioux/Tonkawa man from Oklahoma, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for the death of his four-month-old daughter.
Begs-His-Own, 29, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the July 2004 death of his daughter.
The crime occurred at the Fort Oakland Indian Housing Area in Tonkawa.
Begs-His-Own faced 10 years in prison but Virginia Combrink, a former president of the Tonkawa Tribe, and others in the community urged a lighter sentence They said the death of the girl was an accident.
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