Man Gets 20 Years in Girl’s Drowning

A man convicted of manslaughter for pulling the life jacket off a 7-year-old girl and leaving her to drown was sentenced to 20 years in prison for what a judge in Hernando, Miss., called “one of the most cowardly of acts I have ever heard of.” Troy Lee Carlisle, 28, received the maximum sentence in the death of Dallas Reinhardt. Dallas, her brother, stepfather and Carlisle were fishing when the children, wearing life jackets, went for a swim and drifted away. The stepfather rescued the boy. Carlisle, who was not wearing a life jacket, said he panicked after swallowing water.