Man who laughed as girlfriend burned toddler with cigarette loses appeal, will spend up to six years behind bars
27-year-old Enrique Soto lost had his appeal for a shorter sentence rejected by a state appeals court and will have to spend 3-6 years behind bars.
A Pennsylvania man who admitted to laughing and watching as his girlfriend burned her 19-month-old son with a cigarette repeatedly has had his appeal for a shorter sentence rejected by a state appeals court and will serve out his previously handed down 38-to-76-month jail term.
According to Penn Live, 27-year-old Enrique Soto was complicit to the child abuse as he witnessed girlfriend Anna Russell burn her son at least 15 times with a lighted cigarette at their Pittsburgh home in 2015. After being taken to a hospital by the 19-month-old's concerned grandmother, the boy was found to have suffered burns on his face, chest, neck, back, arms, and leg, with his three-year-old sister telling police that Soto "laughed...a lot, a lot, a lot."