Man sentenced after severely injuring 2-year-old in Longmont
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and last updated 2021-03-10 09:20:52-05
LONGMONT, Colo. â A man has been sentenced to more than four decades behind bars after extensively abusing his girlfriend and her 2-year-old daughter. The child suffered life-threatening injuries.
Cristian Hernandez was sentenced on Tuesday to 42 years in the Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to first-degree assault with extreme indifference, second-degree assault including bodily injury with a deadly weapon, and domestic violence assault including injury to a pregnant victim.
The charges stem from Sept. 3, 2019, when Hernandez, who was 22 at the time, ran out of a room at the Lamplighter Motel in Longmont with the limp body of his girlfriend s 2-year-old daughter. The child was flown to Children s Hospital in Denver.