Overview
- A jury convicted Jesse Manuel Figueroa earlier in 2026 and he was sentenced on Friday, May 29, 2026 to 25 years to life in prison for the 2020 death of his 8-month-old daughter, Raina.
- The Santa Clara County medical examiner ruled Raina's death a homicide after an autopsy found brain hemorrhages from blunt-force trauma so severe the brain shifted inside her skull.
- Figueroa brought an unconscious Raina to a Mountain View fire station on July 4, 2020 and she was taken to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford where doctors later pronounced her dead.
- At trial prosecutors presented evidence that Figueroa had repeatedly abused Raina’s mother and the couple’s two other young children, and court records showed he was under a restraining order that barred unsupervised visits with the infant at the time.
- Family members and the district attorney framed the sentence as partial justice for Raina, and the case raises questions about how protective orders and child-safety measures are enforced when domestic violence involves young children.