A Seaside man convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter will spend close to 40 years in prison, the maximum sentence the law allows.

“Mr. Roden, you are a cruel man,” Clatsop County Circuit Court Judge Paula Brownhill said before reading 28-year old Randy Roden’s sentence Monday afternoon. “You have an excellent legal team who has represented you in the best possible light.”

But, she added, he was the one taking care of 2-year old Evangelina Wing “when her arm was broken and her mouth ruined and her hair torn out by the roots.”

“If you get out of jail and hurt another child, God have mercy on your soul.”

In October, after several days of deliberation, a 12-person jury found Roden guilty of murder by abuse, felony murder, manslaughter, criminal mistreatment and assault in the death of Evangelina Wing in 2014 and the abuse of her two surviving brothers.

For these charges, Judge Brownhill sentenced him to just over 35 years in prison. He is still serving time on a prior coercion conviction, which will add to his overall prison time.

Roden was acquitted of four counts of aggravated murder, serious charges that carried the possibility of the death penalty or life in prison. The jury also found him not guilty of charges of sexual abuse.

Those involved in the investigation and trial say it was one of the worst cases of child abuse in Clatsop County that they had ever seen. Evangelina Wing and her two brothers had multiple injuries, with Eva bearing the most extreme of the injuries. An autopsy determined she died from blunt force trauma.

In a prepared statement she read over the phone, Melissa Smith, Eva’s aunt, talked about the photos of Eva’s battered body.

“I will never be able to burn these things from my mind,” she said. “… My family has forever been changed.”

Dorothy Wing, Eva’s mother, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter and two counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment. She testified against Roden at Roden’s trial.