Two parents who were convicted of child abuse after their infant son was left blind and quadriplegic due to malnutrition and exposure to extreme temperatures were sentenced to nine years in state prison on Friday, Oct. 24.

Jaqueline Navarro, 45, and John Andres Gonzalez, 38, were found guilty in Orange County Superior Court in June of a felony count of child abuse with an enhancement for causing great bodily injury to a child under the age of 5. The conviction came more than five years after the mother and father, residents of Lindsay in Tulare County, brought their unresponsive 10-month-old named Journey to a Newport Beach emergency room on Aug. 1, 2020, while visiting Orange County.

The baby, who was gray, emaciated and catatonic when brought to the Hoag Hospital Emergency Room, was

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