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Convicted child killer up for re-sentencing after court error

Nine years after Ryan Miller was sentenced to life in prison for the death of a 17-month-old girl, a court error at his sentencing is giving him a chance at a b...

Aaliyah Andrews was just 17 months old when she died, after being beaten with a television antenna and thrown against a wall by her mother's ex-boyfriend.

Nine years after Ryan Miller was sent to prison for the rest of his life, a court error at his sentencing is giving him a chance at a break.

Miller is now looking, instead, at 20 to 60 years in prison when he goes before Judge Walter Braud in Rock Island County court sometime in the coming weeks.

"He should stay in prison and never see the light of day, that's how I feel. You killed an innocent little girl. She was only 17 months. He needs to stay where he's at, he doesn't deserve a second chance," said the baby's mother, Ashley Dombrowski.

Aaliyah's liver was split in two from the impact of the beating.

Dombrowski says Miller was her ex-boyfriend and had never shown signs of violence in the past. She was at work when it happened.

"That was my first child. I can't let anyone watch my children now. They're not even in daycare, because I have this wall built up. I don't trust," she said.

Rock Island County States Attorney John McGehee says when Miller was sentenced to mandatory life in 2006, a mistake was made.

"The statute had been changed, and mandatory life ruled unconstitutional, years earlier, but no one caught it," McGehee said. "Not the prosecution, defense or trial court judge," he said.

Miller will likely be re-sentenced in February 2015.

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