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Lynn man gets 9 to 12 years for shaking his daughter so badly he inflicted brain and vision damage

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  May 01, 2012

A 29-year-old Lynn man has been sentenced to 9 to 12 years in state prison for inflicting permanent brain and vision damage on his two-month-old daughter. José Aquino was sentenced today in Salem Superior Court by Judge Howard J Whitehead. Aquino was convicted Monday following a six-day trial of assault and battery on a child causing substantial bodily injury. The jury had deliberated for three hours before returning its verdict. Aquino violently shook the baby on July 28, 2009, causing severe bleeding on her brain and other injuries, prosecutors said.

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