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(KNOX CO.) – Robert Baldwin was sentenced to the maximum 65 years in prison Friday in Knox Circuit Court.
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Baldwin, 55, had pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the strangulation and suffocation death of his 5-year-old son Gabriel Baldwin on April 5, 2017.
Baldwin admitted to the murder, strangulation, and battery to a child under 14.
The judge sentenced Baldwin to the maximum sentence because of premeditation and Baldwin’s lack of remorse.
Baldwin told police e first tried to smother him with a pillow, and when that was not successful, he choked the 5-year-old using a USB cord. Baldwin reportedly told investigators that he then sat on the boy until he stopped breathing.