Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the sentencing of Isaac Duran Infante, 24, to 25 years-to-life in state prison for strangling his ex-girlfriend Felicia Barahona and their four-year-old son Miguel Barahona to death in her West Harlem apartment. On December 5, 2017, the defendant pleaded guilty in New York State Supreme Court to all counts in the indictment against him: two counts of Murder in the First Degree and two counts of Murder in the Second Degree.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs families across New York welcome the arrival of the holiday season, one family continues to mourn the loss of a mother and child at the hands of Isaac Duran Infante,\u201d said District Attorney Vance. \u201cThis defendant committed not one but two inconceivable acts of murder against the mother of his child and his defenseless four-year-old son, and he did so in one of the most violent and personal ways imaginable. That he fled across state lines and celebrated the Christmas holiday while his victims lay dead only serves to exacerbate the horror of this unconscionable crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to thank the dedicated prosecutors in my Office\u2019s Child Abuse Unit for swiftly bringing this defendant to justice. And I hope that this life sentence provides some measure of comfort to this victims\u2019 loved ones as they continue to endure to tremendous tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
As admitted in the defendant\u2019s guilty plea, at approximately 9:15 p.m. on December 22nd, 2016, Infante and Felicia Barahona were engaged in a verbal dispute at her apartment on West 153rd Street when the defendant wrapped an electrical cord around her neck, then squeezed the cord so tightly that she choked to death. After witnessing his father violently strangle his mother, four-year-old Miguel Barahona was crying in the bathroom when the defendant took a computer cable, tied it around his son\u2019s neck, and suffocated the boy. The defendant then laid his son\u2019s body face-down in the bathtub under several inches of water before changing into Ms. Barahona\u2019s clothing and exiting the apartment building.<\/p>\n
The defendant fled to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he celebrated the Christmas holiday with family and where, as he later admitted, he discarded the victim\u2019s clothing. He remained in Pennsylvania until the victims\u2019 bodies were discovered days later in Ms. Barahona\u2019s apartment. Upon seeing news coverage of the incident, Infante returned to New York City and went to the NYPD\u2019s 30th Precinct, posing as a grieving father. After being questioned by detectives, he was arrested on December 27th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the sentencing of Isaac Duran Infante, 24, to 25 years-to-life in state prison for strangling his ex-girlfriend Felicia Barahona and their four-year-old son Miguel Barahona to death in her West Harlem apartment. On December 5, 2017, the defendant pleaded guilty in New York State Supreme Court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":115065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n