After a 20-year-old Hutchinson man entered a plea of aggravated battery last month instead of the original charge of abuse of a child, he was sentenced Friday to 30-months in prison by Judge Tim Chambers who called some of the acts “unforgivable.”

Trevor Coleman had been accused of the abuse of a child while he was babysitting his girlfriends children and allegedly injured a 2-year-old girl. The child suffered a lacerated liver, and two broken wrist.

Coleman claimed he was just playing with the child which was one of three in his care. He admits he had the child facing down when he slammed the child on his knee, which they believe caused the injuries to the child’s liver. He says he wasn’t angry, but frustrated at one of the other kids and also the mother of the kids. The state believes the force to child’s stomach was so severe that it pushed the child’s liver back to the spine, causing the laceration.

Coleman is also alleged to have thrown the same child in the air, about 8-feet according to the Hutchinson Police Detective Scott Carlton, but failed to catch the child, who then landed on the carpet. Coleman says he was distracted by one of the other kids. That’s believed to have caused the broken wrist. This occurring back on January 22, 2012.

He apparently agreed to an upward departure from 18-months to 30-months. Coleman had apparently been on parole out of Missouri at the time of the crime and that had a barring on the decision of sentencing and him being sent to prison.

He did get a bit of a break, because had he been convicted of abuse of a child, he would have been looking at 44-months in prison.