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Alabama bridge baby killer guilty US father guilty of bridge deaths
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An Alabama jury has convicted a man of murdering four children whom he threw off a bridge in January 2008.An Alabama jury has convicted a man of murdering four children whom he threw off a bridge in January 2008.
Lam Luong was found guilty of tossing the children 80 ft (25m) into the sea from the Gulf coast bridge. Lam Luong was found guilty of tossing the children 80ft (24m) into the sea from the Gulf coast bridge.
Luong's lawyer had sought a reduced charge of manslaughter, saying his client was on drugs when he killed the children - three of whom were his own.Luong's lawyer had sought a reduced charge of manslaughter, saying his client was on drugs when he killed the children - three of whom were his own.
Luong, 38, told police he had had an argument with his wife. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.Luong, 38, told police he had had an argument with his wife. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
The jury deliberated for just 40 minutes in Mobile before reaching their verdict.
The jury is expected to make a sentence recommendation of life in prison without parole or the death penalty.
The three younger children - Hannah, two, Lindsey, one, and four-month-old Danny - were Luong's with his common-law wife, Kieu Phan.
The eldest, three-year-old Ryan, was Ms Phan's child from an earlier relationship.
Luong had arrived in Alabama as a refugee from Vietnam in 1984 when he was a teenager, and had worked as a shrimper.