LAKEWOOD, Colo. (KDVR) — A Lakewood child caretaker is now sentenced to 18 years in prison for child abuse. FOX31 sat down exclusively with the father of the toddler she’s convicted of seriously injuring.

A seven-day trial reviewed disturbing details from when Giovanni was in his babysitter McKinley Slone Hernandez’s care in September of 2023. Prosecutors said the two-year-old fell or was pushed out of a trailer that was shown on surveillance video from the day of the incident during the trial.

“We watched her pick up a child who 'fell out of a trailer' and is sad and hurt and crying,” Giovanni’s father, Anthony Distefano, said. “And instead of consoling him, she picks him up and walking in the house, bites him on his forearm, right in the camera, it just doesn’t, it'll never make sense

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