Brooklyn Man Gets 15 Years For Fatally Beating Toddler, DA Says

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK -- A Brooklyn man who admitted to beating his girlfriend's 3-year-old son to death will spend 15 years in prison, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Salvatore Lucchesse, 26, was sentenced in Brooklyn Criminal Court for killing Jaden Jordan in Gravesend in 2016 while the toddler's mom was at work, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.

Lucchesse, of Gravesend, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on March 19, prosecutors said.

Jordan's mom left the small boy with Lucchesse when she left for work at 9 a.m. on Nov. 28, 2016, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors believe that the toddler soiled himself and was violently punished by Lucchesse.

"There is no excuse ever, under any circumstances, for beating a child," said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. “This was a senseless death of a helpless little boy who was left in the defendant’s care."

Medics who burst into the home at about 4:30 p.m. found Jordan soiled and unconscious with a fractured skull, said prosecutors.

Jordan, who fell into a coma, was rushed first to Coney Island Hospital then Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center where he died on Dec. 3, prosecutors said.

The Medical Examiner's office ruled the death to be a homicide caused by abusive head and neck trauma, prosecutors said.