'Caused her brain to dislodge': Dad hit 8-month-old daughter so hard in the face that he left a bruise in the 'distinctive shape and size of an adult hand'

A California begetter struck his babe girl truthful hard successful the look that it "caused her encephalon to dislodge and determination to a antithetic portion of her head" and near a bruise successful the "distinctive signifier and size of an big hand" connected her cheek.

Jesse Manuel Figueroa, 36, was sentenced to 25 years to beingness down bars for the decease of his 8-month-old girl Raina, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said. A assemblage convicted him of murder earlier this year.

Figueroa brought his unconscious girl to a Mountain View occurrence presumption connected July 4, 2020. Firefighters rushed her to the hospital, wherever she died a fewer days later. The begetter claimed helium was taking her to a household barbecue erstwhile she "mysteriously fell unconscious and humor began seeping from her nose."

But portion astatine the hospital, a bruise developed successful the signifier of an big manus connected Raina's cheek. An autopsy recovered she died from blunt unit trauma that caused encephalon hemorrhaging.

"The aesculapian examiner revealed the stroke to Raina 'was truthful hard it caused her encephalon to dislodge and determination to a antithetic portion of her head,'" prosecutors wrote.

Investigators aboriginal learned that Figueroa was besides abusive toward Raina's parent and their different 2 children, ages 2 and 3. He strangled Raina's parent and forced the children to kneel connected rice, prosecutors said.

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Figueroa was not allowed to person unsupervised visits with Raina, but helium convinced her parent to let him to ticker Raina unsocial truthful helium could instrumentality her to the household barbecue.

"Raina mattered. Her beingness mattered," Raina's gramps told the tribunal successful a unfortunate interaction statement. "She was not conscionable a sanction successful a lawsuit file. She was a babe who was profoundly loved and who should inactive beryllium present today."

District Attorney Jeff Rosen noted that Raina would beryllium 6 years aged if she were live today.

"These cases interruption our hearts, astatine the brutality, astatine the senselessness, astatine the sheer nonaccomplishment of an guiltless child," Rosen said successful a statement. "Today, we tin lone consciousness immoderate consciousness of justness that this antheral volition ne'er wounded different child."