SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Jurors were unable to reach verdicts in the murder trial of a man accused of causing fatal injuries to his girlfriend’s toddler son at a Bay Terraces home.
McArvin Sanchez Caringal, 22, is accused of fatally injuring Adrian Soto, who would have turned 2 years old about a week after his death on June 12, 2023. The boy sustained skull fractures and other blunt force injuries.
Prosecutors allege Caringal, who was watching the boy at the home while the child’s mother was at work, provided various versions of the events to investigators, including that the boy inflicted the injuries to himself, before later telling investigators that he threw the child to the ground.
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Caringal testified that he tripped and fell while holding the boy, causing his entire body weight to land on top of the child…