A SHELDON, IOWA MAN WILL SPEND UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR THE JULY 2020 DEATH OF HIS INFANT DAUGHTER.
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD LAWRENCE RUOTOLO, JUNIOR WAS SENTENCED IN O’BRIEN COUNTY AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT.
THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT SAYS RUOTOLO WAS WATCHING THE FIVE-MONTH-OLD GIRL WHEN SHE STARTING SCREAMING AND CRYING.
INVESTIGATORS SAY HE LOST HIS TEMPER AND ASSAULTED HER.
HIS DAUGHTER BECAME UNRESPONSIVE AND DIED FOUR DAYS LATER IN A SIOUX FALLS HOSPITAL.
THE GIRL’S MOTHER, 21-YEAR-OLD BRITTANEE BAKER, WAS REPORTEDLY SLEEPING DURING THE ASSAULT AND IS ACCUSED OF LYING TO COVER FOR RUOTOLO.
