Two parents were sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for abusing their baby son to such a degree he sustained brain damage and is unable to walk.

Johnny Andres Gonzalez, 38, and Jacqueline Navarro, 45, both of Lindsay, in Tulare County, were convicted June 30 of felony child abuse and endangerment with a sentencing enhancement for great bodily injury on a child younger than 5.

Their son, Journey, was brought to Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach Aug. 1, 2020, showing “signs of severe malnourishment” and appearing to be “experiencing hypoxis, a lack of oxygen to the brain,” Deputy District Attorney Bethel Cope-Vega said in a sentencing brief. The infant was then transferred to Children’s Hospital of Orange County underweight, she added.

A doctor testified during the trial that the victi

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