CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Duval County jury has sentenced a man to 48 years in prison after convicting him of repeatedly abusing a child.

Daniel Shane Locklin was found guilty of eight felony charges related to the physical abuse of a minor. The jury convicted him on four counts of injury to a child with serious bodily injury, which are first-degree felonies, and four counts of injury to a child with bodily injury, classified as third-degree felonies.

The jury assessed 12 years in prison for each first-degree count and 5 years for each third-degree count. At the prosecution's request, the court ordered the sentences for the first-degree offenses to run consecutively, resulting in a 48-year total sentence.

Evidence presented in court documented disturbing patterns of ongoing abuse, inclu

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