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A 25-year-old Holladay man has been sentenced a year in jail for physically abusing his 4-month-old daughter last November after she was burned by a space heater.

Elijah Malykeshabazz Jodejuan, 25, was initially charged in 3rd District Court with two counts of second-degree felony child abuse.

He pleaded guilty in May to one lesser count of third-degree felony child abuse, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

On Monday, Judge Richard McKelvie sentenced Jodejuan to 365 days in jail, with no credit for the nearly six months he had already spent in jail. The judge also ordered no good time, no labor detail and no ankle monitor release.

Charging documents state that on Nov. 4, 2015, the baby's mother left the infant in Jodejuan's care while she went to work.

Later in the day, she began getting "odd text messages" from Jodejuan, including one that told her "that everything would turn out all right with the baby," charges state.

When the mother returned home, she found the baby and Jodejuan locked inside a bedroom. Jodejuan would not answer questions about the child's welfare, and initially refused to let her in, though the baby was screaming, detectives reported. When he did finally open the door, Jodejuan allegedly grabbed the mother, throwing her onto a bed in another room.

Eventually, the mother got inside the other bedroom and found the baby inside a closet, suffering from obvious burns and other injuries. She rushed the child to the hospital.

Detectives say Jodejuan claimed that the baby had pulled a space heater by its cord onto herself while he was taking a shower. He said that when he pulled the heater — which was "stuck" to the baby's skin — off of her, she was "screaming like bloody murder," charges state.

Frustrated by the incident, Jodejuan admitted to "taking it out on her," according to charges, including that he grabbed her "too hard on her waist." He also admitted to pushing a bottle into the girl's mouth while trying to feed her and that he "held it pretty hard while she was crying," charges state.

Doctors at Primary Children's Hospital found that the baby girl, in addition to her burns, had suffered "non-accidental trauma," including multiple abrasions and contusions to her face, arms, legs and abdomen, charges state.

Jodejuan's sentencing originally had been scheduled for July 18, but he failed show up for a June 8 pre-sentence report interview with Corrections officials, and on July 15, McKelvie issued a $100,000 arrest warrant.

Jodejuan was arrested Aug. 3 and has remained at the Salt Lake County jail since then.

He also spent four months in jail, from November until March, at which time he was released to Pre-Trial Services supervision.