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Dad jailed for 100 years for drowning three-year-old stepdaughter in hotel pool

A father who repeatedly threw his three-year-old stepdaughter into a hotel swimming pool and let her drown will face the rest of his life behind bars.

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The killer, known only as Jose David N., has been jailed for 100 years after shocking footage showed him leaving the toddler to drown in the pool while other bathers hastily left the scene.

The video, shot in the city of Morelia, Mexico, in August 2015, shows the man throwing his stepdaughter into the swimming pool knowing that she could not swim.

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Killer: The girl’s stepfather knew she could not swim (CEN)

He then appeared to act surprised after being told that she had drowned.

However, the video footage was enough to convict him and see him jailed with no possibility of parole.

Judge Garcia Cardona said that not only did the man throw the toddler into the pool several times, he even dragged her hair under the water and held her tiny body in such a position in the water that she was unable to breathe.

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Witnesses: Other bathers hastily left the pool during the incident (CEN)

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Guilty: The man has been sentenced to 100 years in jail (CEN)

The defence had tried to suggest that the little girl had died outside the pool and not in the water, but this was rejected by the judges.

The toddler’s mother was sleeping in the hotel room at the time of the incident and reportedly took her daughter to hospital after realising she wasn’t breathing, where doctors confirmed she had died.

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