A former employee at a group home in eastern Illinois has been sentenced to three years in prison in the death of a developmentally disabled resident.

Marquis Harmon pleaded guilty in August to criminal neglect of a person with a disability and obstructing justice.

He was accused of failing to intervene to stop a fellow employee from beating resident Paul McCann so severely that he died four days later from what his family called "torture-like" punishment at the group home in Charleston.

During Friday's sentencing, Circuit Judge James Glenn said Harmon was capable of keeping stopping the attacking but did not.

Harmon's co-defendant, Keyun Newble, was sentenced to eight years in prison in July after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter.