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Man gets 30 years for beating child to death over video game

A 25-year-old man in Texas may spend up to three decades behind bars for killing his girlfriend’s 11-month-old daughter two years ago, beating and shaking the infant — who suffered a cracked skull — because she interrupted him while he was playing video games. Bryce L. Ceaser was sentenced to 30 years in a state correctional facility for the 2021 slaying of young Ka’Oir Stevens, authorities confirmed to Law&Crime.

A jury in Jefferson County last week found Ceaser guilty on one count of felony injury to a child and one count of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury to a child. After two additional days of deliberations, the same jury on Monday sentenced him to 30 years on each charge, with the sentences to run concurrently, meaning at the same time.

Bryce L. Ceaser (Jefferson County Sheriff

Bryce L. Ceaser (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office) and Ka’Oir Richards (Proctor’s Mortuary — Beaumont)

According to a report from Beaumont, Texas, ABC and NBC affiliate KBMT, the investigation into Ceaser began when officers with the Beaumont Police Department at about 2:45 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2021, responded to a call regarding an infant who was allegedly choking and brought to St. Elizabeth Hospital with suspicious injuries. Unfortunately the child — later identified as Ka’Oir — was pronounced dead a few hours later.

Investigators said that Ceaser was babysitting the child that day while her mother went to work at a new job. Ceaser reportedly told police that he called 911 after the child began choking on a cheese cracker and became unresponsive.

However, a CT scan reportedly showed that Ka’Oir had suffered multiple physical injuries, including a fractured skull, brain hemorrhaging, petechiae or bleeding in her left eye, and bruising to her head and shoulders.

Ceaser initially stuck to the story that the victim was choking on the cheese cracker, explaining that her injuries could have been caused by his efforts to clear her airway. However, police said he eventually confessed to getting frustrated because Ka’Oir was misbehaving, and admitted to “popping the child a couple of times so she would stop crying,” prosecutors said.

During the trial, K’tirrah Stevens, the victim’s mother, provided emotional testimony about getting a call from Ceaser claiming her daughter had suffered a seizure.

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