TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas parole board will consider parole for a 40-year-old inmate convicted in the death of a 2 1/2-year-old boy.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Glenn Allen Heath Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1995 beating death in Topeka of his fiancee’s son.

The Kansas Parole Board is scheduled to hear public comments Aug. 21 about the potential parole of 28 inmates, including Heath, who was sentenced to consecutive terms of life and five years, eight months in prison after a jury convicted him of child abuse and first-degree murder.

An autopsy indicated the child died of bleeding from abdominal punctures.

In the months before the boy died, a state agency had been called twice on reports of the child suffering bruises and a broken leg bone.