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Arturo Cuacuas was sentenced after pleading guilty in connection with the starvation death of his 7-year-old son in Newburgh, NY.
Cuacuas was sentenced Monday in Orange County Court. The 55-year-old defendant had pleaded guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of the child Peter Cuacuas. in agreement cooperated with the prosecution in the case against his girlfriend, the minor’s main caregiver, Leticia Bravo (39), y he will be eligible for parole in just over a year.
In March, Bravo pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced last week to 15 years in prisonnarrowed News 12.