A “blacked out” father left his 2-year-old daughter to die in the back of his burning car while he saved himself — and then lied to police about where she was before her charred body was discovered strapped in a car seat, cops said.

Nicholas Stemen, 34, was sentenced Monday to at least 22 years in prison for the horrific death of his daughter, Lillyanna, in September 2024 in northwest Ohio.

“My baby girl is gone. And for what? For her father enjoying a night of drinking? He killed her,” Lillyana’s mother wrote in a scathing letter read aloud in court during the sentencing hearing, Lima News reported .

Stemen admitted he had just downed at least 10 drinks when he was seen by police driving erratically — and missing a tire — before he came to a stop in Lima and his car burst into flames

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