U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday told graduates of the northern Indiana Catholic boarding school he graduated from 40 years ago that persistence is the most essential quality to success and is the only trait each personCROWN POINT – A northwest Indiana man whose son died in 2009 after he was starved, beaten and kept in a dog cage has been sentenced to 80 years in prison.
The Post-Tribune reports Riley Choate, 40, of Hammond was sentenced in Lake Criminal Court on Friday, about a month after he pleaded guilty to felony neglect and other charges related to the death of Christian Choate. The boy’s body was found in a shallow grave at a Gary mobile home park.
In return for the guilty pleas, prosecutors dropped charges of murder, battery, criminal confinement and obstruction of justice.
