A man was found guilty of killing a three-year-old girl in Colorado Springs.
David Lake was sentenced to life in prison with no parole.
Lake was
arrested in late April, more than six months after the little girl was found unresponsive at a southeast Springs home. Police say Bella died from blunt-force trauma.
Lake reportedly told a friend that she hit her head, and then a kid at her school pushed her into a bench a few days later. But according to the arrest affidavit, a doctor said the injury that ended Bella's life was the worst he'd ever seen caused by a person and was definitely consistent with child abuse.
Bella died in October 2017. In January of 2018 police said they were investigating her death as a homicide.