By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:45 PM on 17th June 2011 Sentenced: Benjamin James George, 30, got life in prison for the violent death of a toddler A 230-pound former Marine has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter in a brutal wrestling match, in which he threw the child across a bed and into a wall. Benjamin James George, 30, of Medford, Oregon was sentenced Thursday after he was convicted of murder by abuse in the death of Kacy Sue Lunsford, the Mail Tribune reported. The girl died at a Portland hospital in June 2010, five days after the assault.
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Benjamin James George, 30, of Medford, Oregon sentenced
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Admitted choking and body slamming toddler in 2010
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Defence argued mental impairment; judge not swayed
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