A judge has sentenced a 36-year-old San Jose man to 25 years-to-life in prison for killing his infant daughter by striking her so hard in the head that her brain shifted in her skull.
A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury earlier this year found Jesse Manuel Figueroa guilty of murder, for fatally striking 8-month-old Baby Raina in 2020 while babysitting her.
He told police he noticed nothing wrong with his daughter before her collapse. But an autopsy showed she had been struck so hard across the face that she had brain damage, and evidence at trial showed the defendant had been physically abusing his two other young children and their mother…