Nampa man sentenced to prison for abusing newborn who eventually died
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NAMPA — A Nampa man was sentenced to 27 years in prison Wednesday for abusing and neglecting his newborn son who eventually died.
KBOI reports medical records show the three-month-old son of 26-year-old Isaac Matthew Hernandez suffered from 26 broken ribs, multiple leg fractures, a badly-torn frenulum and bruises throughout his body.
The infant only weighed up to 2.2 pounds in his life, which led to a “failure to thrive,” according to KBOI.
“This is one of the saddest and worst cases of child abuse that I have ever seen in well-over 30 years of practicing law,” judge George Southworth reportedly said. “I’ve never come across so many instances of abuse and such severe abuse of an infant.”
Hernandez pleaded guilty to three charges of felony injury to a child in June.
“The thought of a grown man treating an innocent child with such hate and neglect leaves me with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach,” Erica Kallin, deputy prosecutor, said during the hearing.