A Regina man convicted of killing a four-year-old girl and harming her two-year-old sister is appealing his sentence.
Kevin Goforth was sentenced to 15 years in prison for manslaughter in the four-year-old’s death and unlawfully causing bodily harm to the younger child. In a handwritten notice of appeal filed Wednesday, Goforth said the sentence is too high.
“The sentence is to harsh and acsessive (sic),” Goforth wrote.
His wife Tammy Goforth was found guilty of second-degree murder and unlawfully causing bodily harm. Last week, she filed an appeal of her conviction and sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 17 years.
The trial heard the girls weren’t given enough food, were kept in poor conditions and sometimes restrained while in the Goforths’ care.
In July 2012, the four-year-old girl was taken to Regina General Hospital in a malnourished and dehydrated state. She later died of a brain injury after suffering cardiac arrest.
