YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - A former super heavyweight boxing champion was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years in prison after a jury earlier found him guilty of child endangerment and domestic violence charges.

It is the maximum sentence allowed by law for Wesley Triplett who investigators say used an electrical cord to beat his four-year-old son, leaving scars on the child's back. 

In passing sentence, Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Krichbaum called the injuries to the child "brutal, savage, sadistic and barbaric"

The Judge said the child suffered "relentless cruelty in a chamber of horrors" adding that "this was not punishment, but torture."

Mahoning County Prosecutors said that during the course of a four month period, from the end of 2016 up until April 2017, the boy periodically visited Triplett. 

The boy was reportedly whipped, burned, and suffered a sprained elbow and several broken ribs, during those visits. The jury took less than an hour to determine Triplett's guilt.

Jurors were made aware of two prior domestic violence convictions. 

In 2008, the boxer pleaded no contest to felonious assault. Our print partner, the Vindicator, reported that Triplett punched a doctor during a game of basketball. After pleading no contest, Triplett was sentenced to probation and anger management courses. 

Then in 2012, Triplett pleaded guilty to several charges of domestic violence. That case also earned him probation, community service, and an order to complete anger management classes.