Sailor sentenced to life for killing sonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS /Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 5:30 p.m. PT
SPOKANE, Wash. --A Colfax man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his 28-day-old son by sitting on him. Robert J. Howard, 21, a Navy seaman posted to the Yokosuka Naval Base near Tokyo, Japan, will likely serve his sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the Navy said...<snip>....Howard was a hospitalman who completed medical corps training in 2002 and married a fellow medical corps member, according to Stars and Stripes.