Man gets 20 years for dumping daughter's body in suitcase next to railroad tracks
06/24/2019 9:01 pm PDT
via WPIX:
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (WPIX) -- A Virginia man whose toddler daughter's body was found in a suitcase next to New Jersey railroad tracks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Travis Plummer was convicted in April of unlawful concealment of human remains. The 38-year-old Richmond man was sentenced Friday.
Authorities have said Plummer took 23-month-old Te'Myah Layauna Plummer from her mother in Virginia in fall 2017 and traveled to New Jersey with the decomposing body wrapped inside a suitcase.
Investigators said they believe Plummer left the suitcase in a friend's Jersey City garage for months, but after a March 2018 police visit dumped it off a bridge, where it was found near the tracks the following month.
The child died of unspecified violence and cocaine intoxication. Plummer hasn't been charged with killing the girl.
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