A Gary man got 20 years Thursday in a plea deal for killing his baby daughter.

Casey Burnett, 25, signed a plea deal May 7 for aggravated battery.

A probable cause affidavit says his daughter, Kylee Burnett, died in September 2022 as a result of injuries consistent with shaken-baby syndrome.

The girl’s mother Kamia Johnson and other family were completely grief-stricken in court.

Her “life changed forever” when she watched the 1-year-old girl take her last breath, she said on the stand.

“All of this could have been avoided,” she said.

At the hospital, Casey Burnett tried to comfort her, saying their family — with an older son — was “complete.”

“I looked at you as a monster,” she said tearfully. “You broke my family.”

Keyocha Johnson, the girl’s aunt, said they lived with the realit

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