ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, September 20, 1996 TAG: 9609200058
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: MANASSAS
A man has been sentenced to six years in prison in the death of his 2-month-old stepdaughter.
Prince William County Circuit Judge Richard Potter suspended four years of the 10-year sentence he handed down Thursday to Kevin Eugene Holbrook. A jury on July 30 convicted the 22-year-old former Marine of involuntary manslaughter and recommended the 10-year maximum sentence.
Prosecutors had sought a second-degree murder conviction. They said Holbrook was angry and jealous that his wife of one month, Amber Dawn Dilbeck, had a child by another man.
Doctors testified that Hannah Leigh Dilbeck-Holbrook died Jan. 10 of severe brain damage after being violently shaken eight days earlier.
The defense said it was an accident. ``It was involuntary,'' Holbrook said at his sentencing.
Potter also sentenced Holbrook to five years of probation on his release. Holbrook, a Marine Corps private first class at the time of the infant's death, was discharged in July.
- Associated Press
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