A 38-year-old man in Texas will likely spend the rest of his life locked up for killing his infant daughter nearly two years ago, regularly beating the 7-month-old so severely that he regularly broke her legs, leaving the child in a state where she “could no longer fight and heal from these injuries.”
Judge Ermatinger handed down the sentence after a jury found Sierra guilty on one count of injury to a child resulting in serious bodily injury or death.
Personnel in the emergency room said that after examining the infant, they immediately grew suspicious of her condition. Valencia had suffered bruising throughout her body and had multiple broken bones in various stages of healing — a telltale sign of ongoing physical abuse.
Forensic Pathologist Dr. Chester Gwin, who performed the autopsy, told authorities that Valeria’s body simply “could no longer fight and heal from these injuries.”