A Kansas dad who says he did not realize his wife had murdered their 6-year-old adopted daughter and buried her in a box in the backyard was sentenced for the "torture" of another child.

Joseph Schroer, 53, was sentenced to 60 days in jail and four years' probation after he pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated child endangerment and one count of Medicaid fraud.

His wife, Crystina Elizabeth Schroer, 50, was sentenced last month to more than 17 years in prison for the death of Kennedy Schroer, whose body was discovered buried at the family's home in September 2024 in Rose Hill, a town of 4,000 people southeast of Wichita. She pleaded no contest to second-degree murder , child abuse , making false information and welfare fraud in August. She was originally facing a first-degree mu

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