A man charged with killing a 3-year-old by shaking her entered a guilty plea for murder Monday in Rockdale County Superior Court.

Raul Solis, 21, pled guilty to felony murder and cruelty to children in the first degree for the March 2011 death of Edna Figuroa, the daughter of his girlfriend Yaneth DeLaCruz Alvarez, 22. Alvarez was initially charged with cruelty to children in the second degree but those charges were dropped.

Rockdale County Superior Court Judge David Irwin sentenced Solis to life in prison, with the possibilty of parole after 30 years. Solis made no statement and no victim impact statement was given, according to Assistant District Attorney Debora Sullivan.

Solis's case was scheduled to go to trial next week.

Solis, Alvarez and the children lived at 1162 Oak Villas Court in Conyers. Edna and her three brothers – 1, 5, and 6 years old at the time – were reportedly active and noisy that rainy Saturday morning. Alvarez was downstairs and did not check on the children during the four hour period.

At one point, Edna woke up Solis, who had worked all night, by throwng something at him.

Solis later admitted to shaking her, said Sullivan.

Solis and Alvarez later found Edna lying in her room unresponsive. She was taken to Rockdale Medical and then Egleston, where she was found to have extensive hemorrhaging in the brain and difficulty breathing. She was determined to be brain dead and taken off life support a day later.

An autopsy concluded that she had been shaken severely and struck with something on the top of her head.

Solis previously faced charges human trafficking in Texas and social security fraud in Newton County, but reportedly did not have a known history of violent or felony convictions.

Edna and her siblings were from Texas and living with their mother in Georgia on a probationary basis since January.

Alvarez's children were taken away from her in Texas when she tested positive for cocaine. When Edna was born, both mother and child also tested positive for cocaine. When Alvarez moved to Georgia about a year and a half ago, she met and had a child with Solis.