A 50-year-old Tennessee man, Gabriel Fitzgeral Boykins, will potentially spend the rest of his life behind bars for the brutal 2020 murder of his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old daughter. Boykins crushed the girl’s skull so hard that it was found “in pieces.”

As reported by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Boykins was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Thursday, September 18. He received 20 years for murdering Tamara Church, 40, and 25 years for murdering Aquarious Church, 8. He will serve the terms consecutively.

Boykins was found guilty in June of two counts of second-degree murder.

“Is there any greater cruelty than a child watching her mother be hurt or a mother watching her child be hurt?” Judge Amanda Dunn said in court. “One of them watched the other die.”

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