EUREKA – A Greenwood County man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to intentional murder in the second degree and child abuse, according to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

Benny William Clark, 23, of Reece, pleaded guilty in March to one count of murder in the second degree-intentional and one count of abuse of a child.

Prosecutors say Greenwood County authorities were called to a hospital last August to investigate a possible child abuse.

Investigators determined injuries suffered by the child, named Cooper, weren’t consistent with the parents’ story of what happened.

The boy’s mother left him with Clark when she went to work. When she returned home, the boy was having trouble breathing.

Cooper died two days later at a Wichita hospital.

Judge Mike Ward Thursday sentenced Clark to 364 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections. The crime occurred in August 2017.

The case was investigated by the Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office with assistance from the Wichita Police Department’s Exploited and Missing Child Unit.