Father receives 114 years in girl's death

CENTENNIAL, Colo., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- An Aurora, Colo., man has been sentenced to 114 years in prison for the death of his missing daughter and the abuse of her siblings, authorities said.

Aaron Thompson, 42, was sentenced Tuesday in Arapahoe County District Court in the death of his daughter, Aarone, who was reported missing Nov. 14, 2005, The Denver Post reported Wednesday.

No sign of her was ever found. Prosecutors alleged Thompson killed the 6-year-old and buried her in a field far from Aurora.

Thompson also was sentenced for beating his six other children so routinely their home was a "torture chamber," Judge Valeria Spencer said Tuesday.

"These children will recover from the physical injuries, but they will not recover from the injuries to the soul," Spencer told Thompson.

Prosecutors alleged Thompson's live-in girlfriend, Shelley Lowe, who died of natural causes in 2006, was an accomplice in the death of Aarone and the abuse of the other children.

At the sentencing Tuesday, Lynette Thompson, Aarone's mother, said she regretted not being able to give her daughter a proper burial.

"It hurts so bad," she said.