JC Post

JUNCTION CITY – The trial of a Kansas man accused in the death of an 8-month old boy is underway in Geary County District Court.

Christopher Lyman, 29, Junction City, is charged with one count of premeditated murder, three counts of felony murder based on an underlying felony of child abuse in three instances involving torture, shaking, and cruelly beaten.

He also faces three counts of child abuse, and one count each of aggravated battery and aggravated criminal sodomy.

The infant boy was taken to the Emergency Room at Geary Community Hospital on September 15, 2013 and then transported to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., with major injuries. Three days later, the child died.

The trial is expected to last two weeks.