HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) - A Burnsville man who killed his infant son has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.
Michael Herkal, 33, admitted slapping and violently shaking the 13-day-old baby after the child wouldn’t stop crying.
He pleaded guilty Wednesday in the death of Anthony Herkal and was sentenced to 290 months in prison.
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Police responded to a report of an infant who wasn’t breathing at a residence in Apple Valley on Aug. 12, 2018. They found the baby without a pulse and turning purple.
The infant was hospitalized with a skull fracture and bleeding on his brain. He died two days later.
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