Community Foundation Awards 2023 Cbk Small Grants to Kenosha Area Organizations

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Zachariah Anderson was just 16 years old when he was charged with killing his father with a baseball bat in Kenosha, Wis., in June 2015.

On Monday, a jury found him guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, as well as attempted first-degree intentional homicide and child abuse resulting in great bodily harm, reports the Kenosha News.

The teen's defense team had argued that he was acting in self-defense when he grabbed the bat from a friend's backyard and dropped it on his father's head, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

But the jury found him not guilty of intentionally causing great bodily harm to the man's wife and two children, and found him not guilty of child abuse resulting in great bodily harm to one of those children, reports the Kenosha News.

The jury also found him not guilty of two counts of misdemeanor child abuse resulting in great bodily harm and one count of felony child abuse, reports the Kenosha News.

He was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

Anderson's defense team had argued that he had been drinking when he grabbed the bat from a friend's backyard and dropped it on his father's head, but the jury found him not guilty of intentionally causing great bodily

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