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Father Is Imprisoned in Plot to Kill Deaf Girl

<i> Associated Press</i>

A man convicted of trying to push his 9-year-old deaf daughter in front of an oncoming truck to collect more than $200,000 in life insurance has been sentenced to 14 to 42 years in prison.

David Crist, 38, sat motionless during Tuesday’s sentencing for attempted murder.

Diane Crist, now 13, had testified via a sign-language interpreter that her father twice threw her onto a rural road to be run over by a pickup truck.

A woman testified that Crist had offered her $5,000 to run over the girl, but said she swerved at the last minute.

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