ERIE, Pa.—A man who testified to help convict his girlfriend of starving her 14-month-old daughter was sentenced to jail but immediately paroled for time he's already served on charges he helped hide the corpse in a suitcase left on the curb for trash haulers.

The Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/ItTJHd) says 20-year-old Xavier Hollamon was sentenced Tuesday to nine to 18 months in the Erie County Prison, but was freed because he's already spent 10 months in jail.

Hollamon testified at the starvation trial against 21-year-old Tania Coleman, who was convicted of first-degree murder in her daughter's death.

Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri also dropped an unrelated firearm charge against Hollaman last month, but said that happened because of problems with evidence, not because of Hollamon's testimony against Coleman.

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Information from: Erie Times-News, http://www.goerie.com