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Texas man who beat his girlfriend's 4-year-old son to death gets 50 years in prison

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Feb 24, 2024, 3:43 PM EST

Within some homes, children experience violence and abuse, which in some cases ends in the death of the minors, as happened in Texas, when a four-year-old boy was beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend, justice for the little boy comes with a 50-year sentence for the person responsible

Ken Paxton, the attorney general, obtained a 50-year sentence for Ezekiel Ramírez, 29, of Corpus Christi, which followed a plea agreement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The man will not be eligible for parole until 2047, News Wires reported.

Ramírez was charged with several charges, including murder, injury to a child with intent to cause serious bodily injury, and manslaughter of a person under ten years of age, but upon accepting the plea deal, the other charges against him were dropped. could have been worth a life sentence, reported the EFE agency.

The murder of the minor

Knox Longoria was four years old, she had just finished her first year of school, her mother, Bethany Bernal, She used to leave him in the care of her boyfriend at the house where they lived in Nuecess County. But on June 4, 2021 everything changed for the little family.

That day the little boy arrived at the Bay Area Corpus Christi Medical Center with serious internal injuriesthere he was stabilized and transferred to Driscoll Children’s Hospital, where he later died due to blunt force trauma to the abdomen.

For her part, Bethany Bernal, Knox’s mother, is currently in the Nuecess County Jail, where she awaits trial for injury to a child by omission in the 347th District Court of the same county.

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