Boy, 2, beaten unconscious at unlicensed day care
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Left: Mckinley Hernandez (Lakewood Police Department). Right: Baby Giovanni (GoFundMe).

A woman from Colorado has been sentenced to nearly twenty years in prison after severely abusing a 2-year-old boy, leaving him with injuries so severe that he now requires tube feeding and may face permanent damage.

Mckinley Slone Hernandez, age 26, received an 18-year prison sentence for inflicting harm on the 2-year-old boy, Giovanni, whom she was babysitting. This was announced by the 1st Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

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The investigation by Lakewood police commenced on September 1, 2023, after Hernandez took the boy to a nearby hospital. He was subsequently airlifted to a children’s hospital for critical surgery. His injuries were extensive, including a traumatic brain injury, reduced oxygen and blood flow to the brain, and retinal hemorrhaging that caused tissue displacement behind his eyes. His body was also covered in bruises.

The boy’s mother, Stefanie Reichert, said during Hernandez’s sentencing hearing that her son spent about a month in the hospital where he was “intubated, sedated, placed on and off a ventilator, and fed through a tube.” He had to relearn basic life functions like breathing, eating and walking. Those challenges continue, she said, and he may have them for the rest of his life.

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“The possibility of playing sports, wrestling with his brothers, following in his father’s footsteps into the military — these are things that will never happen … Not because he didn’t want them, but because someone made a choice to take them away,” she said.

Hernandez, who ran an unlicensed day care at her home, had been watching Giovanni on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1, 2023. Surveillance video showed Giovanni “falling or being pushed from a camper trailer” around 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 1, prosecutors said. Hernandez, who was right behind him, picked him up from the ground and bit him on his arm before carrying him inside. At some point within the next 15 minutes the boy became unconscious.

But Hernandez did not take him to the hospital until nearly 8 p.m.

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