Springfield man accused of killing this 2-year-old girl, sentenced to two life sentences for severe beating of 8-year-old daughter

By the time Kenneth Robert Davis, 33, Springfield, goes to trial June 1, 2020 in Webster County Circuit Court, for killing his girlfriend's two-year-old daughter Kinzlea Kilgore (pictured), he will have already served the first six months of the two consecutive life sentences he received today after a Greene County jury convicted him on seven counts of felony child abuse for torturing and beating his eight-year-old daughter.

Greene County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Mountjoy handed down the sentence after a trial in which "independent witnesses, including a separate seven year old girl, testified that they had seen the defendant punch the victim in the head and grab the victim by the neck and throw her to the ground," according to a news release from the Greene County Prosecuting Attorney's office.








"The victim had a multitude of significant injuries on all planes on her body including a fractured nose, two black eyes, swollen and bleeding lips, bruises and abrasions on her neck consistent with strangulation marks, large bald spots on her head consistent with her hair being pulled out, bruising and laceration to her buttocks consistent with being struck repeatedly with a belt, and bruises and abrasions to her back, arms, and legs.

"Cindy Tull, a nurse practitioner with the Child Advocacy Center, testified that, in her opinion, the injuries suffered by the victim were the result of child abuse and that '[i]n 10 years of being at the CAC, [she had] never seen the extent of these injuries except for textbooks or through training and research.' "

The trial included riveting testimony from the child in which she said Davis "smacked" her in the mouth, spanked her until she was bleeding, hit her in the face with a phone charger, pulled her hair and then hit the brakes of the van throwing her forward and causing her face to hit the vehicle's console.

Testimony also indicated Davis choked the child with a seat belt.

The beating and torture of Davis' daughter took place June 30, 2018, when he was already a suspect in Kinzlea Kilgore's murder, which happened May 13, 2018, when he was left alone with the girl on Mother's Day weekend approximately seven weeks earlier in Buffalo.

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