Man Convicted Of Murder, Child Abuse In 2018 Death Of Stockton 2-Year-Old

STOCKTON (CBS13) – A antheral has been convicted for first-degree execution for the 2018 decease of two-year-old Stockton lad Ares Doe.

On Friday, the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office announced that Roberto Alcantar had been convicted of execution successful the archetypal grade and battle causing decease of a kid nether eight.

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Doe died backmost successful July 2018 astatine St. Joseph’s Hospital. The young lad had suffered terrible trauma, Stockton constabulary said, and investigators aboriginal arrested Alcantar and the boy’s parent Maria Flores successful transportation to his death.

The DA’s bureau made a peculiar enactment astir the bravery Doe’s sister showed successful testifying astir the maltreatment that prosecutors said occurred astatine Alcantar and Flores’ home.

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“This verdict sends a wide connection that harming children volition not beryllium tolerated and abusers volition beryllium held accountable to the fullest grade of the law,” DA Tori Verber Salazar said successful a statement.

Alcantar was besides convicted for 2 counts of kid endangerment with large bodily injury, the DA’s bureau says. He is acceptable to beryllium sentenced astatine a aboriginal date.

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Flores, who was convicted of kid endangerment charges, is acceptable to beryllium sentenced connected Oct. 25.

CBS13 Staff