The man convicted of starving his 10-year-old daughter and stuffing her body into a trash can was sentenced Friday morning to life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
Eman Moss pleaded guilty in June to felony murder in the 2013 death of Emani Moss, who weighed 32 pounds.
Eman and Tiffany Moss, the girl’s stepmother, were both charged in the case and faced the death penalty, according to DA Danny Porter. But as part of a plea deal, Eman Moss agreed to testify against his wife and spare his life.
Prosecutors have said they didn’t believe Eman Moss was the prime perpetrator behind the girl’s death, but was a passive father who failed to protect her.
“It has always been our contention that the driving force was his wife,” DA Danny Porter said in June. “I don’t think he is the one who made the decision to starve his child to death. I think he acquiesced to it.”
On Nov. 2, 2013, Eman Moss called 911 threatening suicide. When Gwinnett County police officers arrived at the Landmark at Coventry Pointe Apartments at Veranda Chase Drive in unincorporated Lawrenceville, Moss told officers his daughter “drank some chemical and was dead.”
Moss told police that “he panicked and did not know what to do,” and that he placed the girl’s body in a trash can outside his apartment building and tried to burn it.
After Emani’s death, two employees of the state Division of Family and Children Services were fired and four others disciplined were failing to remove the girl from the home despite an extensive history of abuse.
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