A 40-year-old father in Minnesota will spend a decade behind bars for killing his newborn son last year, beating the child to death before claiming he was "blackout drunk" and could not remember what happened.

Ramsey County District Judge Sophia Y. Vuelo on Monday ordered Mark Russell Forster to serve 128 months, or just under 11 years, in a state correctional facility in connection with the death of Jackson Dallas Forster, court records show .

The sentence came down after Forster last month entered a Norgaard plea to one count of second-degree murder without intent while in commission of a felony. Under Minnesota law, a Norgaard plea is used when a defendant claims they cannot remember the facts of the underlying crime but acknowledges that the state has sufficient evidence to prove the

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