Man Gets 10 Years in Death of 3-Year-Old

A Long Beach man shouted obscenities and tearfully claimed his innocence after being sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in state prison in connection with the killing of a 3-year-old girl whose dismembered body was hidden in a block of concrete.

“I’m innocent.... They railroaded me, Mom!” Randy Lonell Foster shouted to his mother in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Foster, who was convicted in April of child abuse, and his girlfriend, Rakeisha Lanette Scott, 24, were charged in the death of Scott’s daughter, Milan Anjonet Scott. The girl’s body was found in seven pieces, decomposing and entombed in a block of concrete in the trunk of Foster’s car, in June 2000.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Victor Rodriguez argued that Foster administered severe discipline that led to the girl’s death.

Foster and Scott told police that Milan had an accident in the bathroom one night and was dead the next morning. Out of fear of losing custody of the couple’s infant son, Foster panicked and hid Milan’s body, the defense said.

Foster was acquitted of second-degree murder by the same jury that convicted him of child abuse April 9. The jury deadlocked on a charge of assault on a child leading to death. On Jan. 16, a second jury acquitted him of the assault count.

Scott was convicted April 11 of murdering her daughter. She was also found guilty of assault on a child under age 8 and child endangerment. Scott was sentenced Jan 14 to 25 years in state prison.

On Wednesday, Foster, 23, asked for leniency, but Judge Michael E. Pastor denied the request, saying he didn’t believe “the defendant is genuinely remorseful” and that Foster “still doesn’t grasp the horrific nature of the crime.”