FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - Jurors found a 35-year-old man guilty Thursday in connection with his daughter’s 2021 death.

Michael T. Allen was charged a month after 1-year-old Kaivonni Lynch died from a blow to the stomach that led to internal bleeding and ultimately her death, according to court records. Allen took his daughter to a fire station at about 1 a.m. on Feb. 25, 2021, and said she had been vomiting for several weeks.

She was in critical condition with no pulse when medics took her to the hospital she later died in, court records show.

Allen said he put the girl down for bed at about 10 p.m., but when he went to check on her, she was still and not breathing, court documents say. An autopsy later showed that she had a torn mesentery, an injury in which a fold of the membrane that

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