CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Waynesboro, Pa., man who beat three children with clothes hangers will spend the next five to 10 years in state prison and then be turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.
Christian Luna Hidalgo, 26, of 231 W. North St., was sentenced Wednesday in Franklin County Court to the mandatory minimum of five years in prison for aggravated assault against children under the age of 13, an offense to which he pleaded no contest on March 5. He also entered pleas of no contest to two counts of endangering the welfare of children.
Hidalgo was charged after a woman brought her 5-year-old daughter to Waynesboro Hospital with an injured arm, Waynesboro police said. Doctors determined the arm was broken and that it and other bruises she had were the result of abuse.
The girl, whom police said also had one ear swollen shut, told Children and Youth Services that Hidalgo struck her with a clothes hanger.