An Ohio man is headed to prison for more than a decade for the death of his girlfriend's teenage son with autism who withered with no food while restrained in a 56-degree basement.

William Turnage, 59, was sentenced Monday to between 11 and 15 1/2 years behind bars in the death of 16-year-old Jeremiah Moore, the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office told Law&Crime. He pleaded guilty on July 31 to involuntary manslaughter and endangering children. As part of his plea deal, prosecutors dropped a murder charge, and he will have to testify against 53-year-old Tamara Moore — Jeremiah's mother and Turnage's girlfriend at the time of the boy's death. Moore is slated to go on trial for murder on Sept. 29.

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