JACKSON COUNTY — A Carbondale man was sentenced in Jackson County Court after pleading guilty to aggravated battery to a child and admitting to violating conditions of probation Friday.

Jackson County State’s Attorney Michael Carr says the aggravated battery to a child charge against 35-year-old Terrill A. Travis arose from an incident on July 24, 2019 when Travis caused injury to a child by whipping the child with a charging cord and then stepped on the child’s head. At the time of the incident, Travis was sharing a home with the child’s mother and the child.

Travis was sentenced to serve 4.5 years in state prison to be followed by a one-year term of mandatory supervised release on this charge. In addition, Travis admitted to petitions to revoke in two separate felony cases, which were filed due to his failure to abide by the terms of the Court’s original sentencing orders and for committing new offenses. He was sentenced to serve 3 years in state prison on a felony retail theft case, which happened at the Murphysboro Walmart in 2018 and 4.5 years on a felony forgery case that occurred at the ZX Gas Station in Carbondale in 2017. Each of the prison sentences will be followed by one year of mandatory supervised release.

These cases were investigated by the Carbondale Police Department and the Murphysboro Police Department.