SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County jurors spent Thursday listening to graphic testimony involving the death of a 12-year-old boy three years ago.
And after about two hours of deliberations, those jurors convicted Derrick Coles on five of six counts of causing serious bodily injury to a child after EMS brought his injury-riddled son to University Hospital in 2022. The 35-year-old will be sentenced Oct. 20; he faces up to 99 years in prison.
According to the latest testimony shared Thursday, Coles admitted that he had made his son, Danilo Coles, engage in about five continuous hours of forced, military-style exercises and often punished him for misbehavior…