Mom served only 7-mths for starved baby’s death
Early release from a 20-year sentence not rare — but is it just?
Eight-week-old Saul Castillo, wrapped in a blanket and wearing a green and white hat, died when his tiny 14-gram heart stopped beating, his emaciated body little more than skin wrapped around sunken eyes and protruding bones.
He had starved to death.
His father, charged in his part in the neglect that led to Saul’s 2004 death, absconded and has not been found.
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