Michael Tolbert pleaded no contest to second-degree child abuse, other offenses.

His daughter, Skye McBride, just turned 5 years old, according to an online fundraiser.

She was shot on Valentine's Day 2024, the day after the new law took effect in Michigan.

A Flint man, who was the first person in Michigan charged with violating the state's new firearms safe storage law after his toddler daughter was shot in the head in 2024, has been sentenced to prison.

Michael Tolbert, 46, was sentenced on multiple charges Monday, Nov. 10 in Genesee County Circuit Court. On the most serious, he received a sentence of roughly nine-to-25 years to be followed by two additional years on gun charges, according to online court records. He received credit for 183 days already spent in jail.

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