Roanoke, VA â€" On Friday, Brandon Lockett, 25, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder and 10 years for felony child abuse for the 2010 death of his stepson, Aveion Lewis.
The boy’s mother, Morgan Lockett, was also sentenced earlier this month to 40 years behind bars for her Aveion’s death.
According to prosecutors, the Locketts starved and neglected the child. Both pleaded no contest to the charges.
In January 2010, Brandon Lockett told police that three assailants forced their way into the family’s Jamestown Place apartment, struck him unconscious, and when he awoke, his stepson was gone and his 4-year-old daughter was bound and gagged.
He said that the kidnappers left a $10,000 ransom note.
Though police were suspicious of Lockett’s story, they issued an Amber Alert for the missing toddler, conducting traffic stops, going door-to-door in his neighborhood, and passing out fliers.
Roanoke Police Chief Joe Gaskins told reporters: "We had some reservations about the stories that were being told, but considering the child, we couldn't afford to assume that an abduction had not occurred, so we certainly had to work it from the angle that there had been an abduction."
The next day, police charged Lockett after he admitted that the child was dead before he contacted authorities.
Two weeks later, the little boy’s body was discovered in a landfill, wrapped in plastic and tape.
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