Dad gets 22 years for beating 1-year-old son to death for crying (Kansas City, Missouri)

Dad REY CRUZ SR. has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for killing his 1-year-old son. Where Mom was while daddy was "babysitting" and torturing this child to death is not explained.

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT.

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2011/03/rey_cruz_sr_child_abuse.php

Rey Cruz Sr. gets 22 years for beating son to death for crying, punching him in the groin to wake him up

By Justin Kendall, Fri., Mar. 25 2011 @ 9:00AM

Rey Cruz Sr. isn't a father.

​Rey Cruz Sr. should never get to lay claim to being a father. The 20-year-old beat his 1-year-old son, Rey Cruz Jr., so severely over a three-day period -- just because the child cried -- that the boy ended up dying.

Cruz was sentenced to 22 years in prison Thursday, according to the Star. He'd been charged with second-degree murder, child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child after his son was found with bruises covering his body -- including his head, torso, legs and genitals -- last May.

Cruz told police that he pushed the boy down while trying to teach him to walk and later shook him on May 4. He admitted slapping his son on the back of his head on May 5. Later that afternoon, the boy was crying, and Cruz hit him in the face. Frustrated again by the boy's crying, Cruz admitted shaking the child for a minute and hitting him in the face twice.

The boy calmed down after being given a bottle. Around 10 p.m., the child woke up crying. Cruz said he squeezed the child above the waist and poked him in his stomach to check him. Then he threw the child on the floor. The child was unresponsive. Cruz left him there for a little while.

Cruz also admitted to shaking the child two more times, punching him in the stomach three or four times, and flicking the child's penis and punching him in the groin to wake him up.

Cruz finally called 911 around 2:23 a.m. and tried to give the child CPR.

At the hospital, the child was unresponsive, and a medical report showed that the child had a subdural hematoma. The boy's brain was swelling so much that it was pushing down on his brainstem. He had 10 rib fractures and "multi-layered retinal hemorrhaging." Doctors classified the injuries as "non-accidental" and placed the boy in the intensive care unit. The boy was later declared brain-dead, and he died from his injuries.

Twenty-two years don't seem long enough.