Young child’s smartphone video sends father to the slammer

YUBA COUNTY, California — A California man has been sentenced to four years in prison after a video recorded by his 9-year-old child captured him brutally beating his wife in front of their three children. Miguel Lazaro-Castillo, 38, pleaded no contest in October to felony domestic violence, false imprisonment, and misdemeanor child abuse. He received the maximum sentence allowed under the law. The incident unfolded on the morning of October 9 when the Yuba County …

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