Rey Cruz Sr. gets 22 years for beating son to death for crying, punching him in the groin to wake him up

Rey Cruz Sr. should never get to lay claim to being a father. The 20-year-old beat his 1-year-old son, Rey Cruz Jr., so severely over a three-day period — just because the child cried — that the boy ended up dying.

Cruz was sentenced to 22 years in prison Thursday, according to the Star. He’d been charged with second-degree murder, child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child after his son was found with bruises covering his body — including his head,

torso, legs and genitals — last May.