Louis Mark Duran will serve a maximum of five years in prison.
With tears running down their faces, family members applauded as a 3rd District judge sentenced their 15-month-old baby’s abuser to prison nearly 30 years after she died.
Louis Mark Duran, now 57, pleaded guilty last year to two counts of third-degree felony child abuse in the case of Vanessa Nieto as part of a plea agreement in which prosecutors dropped the original charge of first-degree felony murder.
Vanessa had been left in the man’s care on Oct.