A Kansas man who pleaded no contest charges relating to the death of his 6-year-old daughter learned his fate on Wednesday.
Joseph Schroer was sentenced to 48 months probation after his plea to two counts of aggravated endangering of a child and Medicaid fraud, KWCH reported.
Should he violate the terms of the probation, he’ll spend 14 months in prison.
Schroer and his wife, Crystina Schroer, were arrested in February and charged with multiple crimes related to the death of 6-year-old Kennedy Schroer, their adopted daughter, as CrimeOnline reported.
Crystina Schroer was charged with murder, aggravated kidnapping, child abuse/torture, theft, forgery, Medicaid fraud, and desecration of a corpse, while Joseph Schroer was charged with child abuse/torture, liability for crimes of another, interference with law enforcement, theft, and Medicaid fraud.
The girl’s decomposed remains were found in a trash bag buried in the backyard of her adoptive parents’ home in September 2024. A post morten report from the Sedgwick County Forensic Science Center determined the little girl died from homicide by probable suffocation — and that she had been buried for four years when she was found.
Crystina Schroer pleaded no contest to second-degree murder, child abuse, making false information and theft in August and was sentenced last month to nearly 18 years in prison.
The other counts against Joseph Schroer were dismissed when he entered his plea in October.
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[Featured image: Crystina Schroer, Kennedy Schroer, and Joseph Schroer/Rose Hill Police Department]
