MACON, Ga. — A Forsyth man has received a life sentence without possibility of parole after pleading guilty to murder in the death of a 5-year-old girl.
Multiple media outlets report that 35-year-old Roderick Buckner was sentenced Wednesday after agreeing to a plea deal in which he will avoid the death penalty.
District Attorney Richard Milam says Buckner struck the girl, Heaven Woods, in the abdomen on two consecutive days in May 2014, causing Woods’ death. Investigators have said Woods died of blunt force trauma to her abdomen.