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SAN JOSE, Calif. – A San Jose father was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison for killing his 8-month-old daughter<\/a> with a blow to the head so severe that it caused her brain to shift inside her skull<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n Jesse Manuel Figueroa, 36, was convicted in the death of his daughter, Raina, in 2020 while he was caring for her, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n “Raina would have been 6 years old today instead of a name on a murder case,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. “These cases break our hearts, at the brutality, at the senselessness, at the sheer loss of an innocent child.”<\/p>\n Fatal injuries <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n On July 4, 2020, Figueroa brought an unconscious Raina to a Mountain View fire station. She was transported to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, where doctors spent several days trying to save her life. She later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n According to prosecutors, Figueroa initially reported he was taking Raina to a family barbecue when she suddenly fell ill, and blood began seeping from her nose.<\/p>\n Baby Raina was killed in 2020 by her father who was babysitting her, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Offce. <\/p>\n While hospitalized, a bruise developed on the girl’s left cheek that resembled the shape and size of an adult hand.<\/p>\n Figueroa told investigators he had not noticed anything wrong with his daughter before her collapse, but an autopsy determined otherwise.<\/p>\n The medical examiner found that Raina suffered brain hemorrhages caused by blunt-force trauma to the head and ruled her death a homicide.<\/p>\n The medical examiner revealed the blow to Raina “was so hard it caused her brain to dislodge and move to a different part of her head.”\u00a0<\/p>\n History of abuse <\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n Evidence presented during the trial showed that Figueroa had physically abused his girlfriend, Raina’s mother, along with the couple’s two other children, who were 2 and 3 years old at the time. Prosecutors said the abuse included forcing the children to kneel on rice as punishment.<\/p>\n At the time of Raina’s death, Figueroa was under a restraining order that prohibited him from having unsupervised visits with her.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on information from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n San Jose<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. – A San Jose father was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,2042,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":["post-338113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/baby-raina.png\")
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