 A Virginia man was convicted last week in the murder of his seven-month-old baby girl. Wise County Commonwealth's attorney Chuck Slimp said 22-year-old Nicholas Plaster of Coburn entered an Alfred plea last week during an arraignment hearing in the case of the death of his daughter. That means Plaster admits that there is enough evidence to convict him, but he does not admit to the crime to which he is accused. Slimp says that back in June Plaster abused his daughter causing injury and concealed the child's condition from her mother. The baby was found unresponsive the next morning and died at Mountain View Hospital in Norton and an autopsy later revealed head and body trauma. This is a horrific and tragic case in which a father deprived his own child of life and it's probably one of the most horrible situations that you can imagine having to deal with as a prosecutor just rips your heart out. He told investigators that at a couple different times during the night that he was playing video games with the child on his lap and dropped the child in the floor. That was his statement. And then apparently he didn't tell the mother about it when the mother awoke the two found, quote-unquote, found the child unresponsive and they took the baby to the hospital at that point. The father admitted to on the night of the offense dropping the child several times and at one occasion picking the child up forcefully to which the child's head rolled back and eyes rolled back at the back of its head. All evidence indicates that the mother had no clue what was going on that he hid what he had done from the mother until after the autopsy. It's treated as a guilty plea for the purposes of move it a case forward and the judge found him guilty of murdering his daughter. The case, the charge is a felony murder charge which carries in Virginia a maximum punishment of 40 years in the penitentiary. There was not a plea agreement between our office and the defense attorney so basically he pled guilty without any promise of leniency or any promise of a sentence. Essentially he's going to have to go beg a court for mercy. Plaster will be sentenced to March 3rd. In the Mountain Top Studios, I'm Chris Anderson.