2013 Legislative Breakfast Book - Queens County District Attorney

Cases of Interest
LITTLE LEAGUE COACH SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS IN PRISON
FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING THREE TEENAGE BOYS
A baseball coach can be one of the
most influential people in a young player’s
life. For the parents who entrusted their
children to former “Rochdale Village
Little League Coach of the Year” David
Hartshorn that turned out not to be a
good thing. Hartshorn had admitted in
court to being a sexual predator who
took advantage of his position as a Little
League coach to get close to young
boys before sexually abusing them. In
September, Hartshorn was sentenced to
18 years in prison for sexually abusing
three boys at his residence and using
two other teenage boys in a sexual
performance which he filmed.
In pleading guilty in August to one
count of first-degree criminal sexual act,
two counts of second-degree criminal
sexual act and two counts of use of a
child in a sexual performance, Hartshorn
admitted that he sexually abused or had
inappropriate sexual contact with three
teenage boys on various occasions between
July 2009 and August 2010. During that
time, Hartshorn filmed two additional
teenage boys engaging in sexual acts with
one another. A search warrant executed
on Hartshorn’s residence recovered many
movies on various formats – including
VHS and DVD – showing young boys
engaging in sexual acts and images of small
children less than ten years of age engaged
in similar activity.
BABYSITTER SENTENCED TO 11 YEARS IN PRISON
IN DEATH OF THREE-MONTH-OLD INFANT
A 28-year-old Corona woman has
been sentenced to 11 years in prison
following her guilty plea to one count
of second-degree manslaughter and
one count of first-degree assault for
causing the death of a three-monthold
infant for whom she had been
babysitting by violently shaking the
child because he was crying.
According to the guilty plea,
the defendant, a family friend, was
babysitting three-month-old Addison
Reinoso-Xoyatla at her residence on
Wednesday, December 29, 2010,
when, sometime after 11:00 a.m.,
the baby awoke and began crying.
Delarosa tried to console the infant
but he continued to cry, at which
point she repeatedly shook him hard
and asked, “What is wrong with you?
Why are you crying?” Delarosa shook
the baby until he stopped crying and
went limp, at which point she sought
help.
The baby arrived at Elmhurst
General Hospital later that day in
cardiac arrest and in an unresponsive
and life-threatening condition. An
examination of the child revealed that
he suffered severe brain injury, as well
as bleeding around the nerves that
connect the eyes to the brain, both of
which are common markers of abusive
head trauma (also known as shaken
baby syndrome), which occurs when
a baby is violently and repeatedly
shaken. The child died on Tuesday,
January 4, 2011.
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