Dad who tortured boy, fed him to pigs gets life sentence
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ The father of a Kansas City, Kan., boy who was abused, tortured, starved and ultimately fed to pigs was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
Michael A. Jones, 46, was sentenced in Wyandotte County Circuit Court where he pleaded guilty in March to first-degree felony murder in the death of his 7-year-old son, Adrian Jones.
Under Kansas law, he will have to serve 25 years before he can seek parole.
"He got off light," said Jennifer Hoevers, the woman who rented the home to Jones and his family and who found video clips and photos showing the abuse Adrian suffered. "And it makes me angry."
Jones did not speak before he was sentenced.
Jones' wife, and Adrian's stepmother, Heather Jones, 31, previously pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and child abuse.
She was sentenced to the same term of life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years for the murder conviction. She was sentenced to an additional five years and eight months in prison for the child abuse.
The little boy's remains were found in November 2015 in a barn on property rented by Michael and Heather Jones.
_The Kansas City Star
