The father of a 2-year-old boy who died in November 2015 was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Darien Head pleaded guilty to second-degree murder this week in the death of his son, 2-year-old Amari Barnhill, according to court records.
Head was credited for 419 days already served and must serve 10 years of probation.
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When Head was first arrested in November 2015, he was charged with aggravated child abuse and child neglect. Shortly after, he was charged with Amari's murder.
When Amari died, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said the boy had "severe bruising and lacerations on his buttocks" and "severe bruising on the front and back of his legs, bruising on the left side of his face/ear area and a severe laceration on his head."
The cause of Amari's death was ruled as blunt force trauma. Shortly after the child's death, his mother Nakesa Barnhill took to Facebook, posting, "U ask to be a father and say I withhold him from you and you murder your son! Your a murderer nothing else. I will seek justice for all involved. TRUST."
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Nakesa Barnhill contacted Action News Jax via Facebook on Wednesday and said she is working on a book that will cover Amari's life from his birth to his death and plans to call it, "The Act of Filicide: The Amari Barnhill Story."
She has also created an organization called "Amari's Earthly Angels" in her son's memory and did a tree planting ceremony on his birthday.
Amari Barnhill, 2, had severe bruising on the front and back of his legs and his cause of death was ruled blunt force trauma:
Posted by Action News Jax on Thursday, January 5, 2017
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