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Local Man Setenced For Killing Child

A Pickaway County man who fled to California to escape charges in the shaken-baby death of a 10-month-old boy will serve 19 years in prison.44-year-old Wayne Walker was sentenced this week as part of a plea bargain in which he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and child endangering. Kyle Calton was killed in late November. Walker fled Pickaway County after being questioned by sheriff's deputies.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.