Illegal immigrant who accidentally ran over and killed his
four-year-old son sentenced to six months in jail


  • Natividad de Jesus Hernandez, 32, will spend only 13 days in jail, having already served 167 days behind bars
  • The El Salvador native pleaded guilty in January to forgery and a misdemeanor negligent homicide count
  • Hernandez struck and killed his son, Angel, when the child fell from his minivan in December 2013
  • Prosecutors say the father was fleeing from a construction site after trying to steal scrap metal
  • Hernandez allegedly used a permanent resident card with someone else's registration number


By Associated Press and Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com

Published: 08:24 EST, 15 March 2016 | Updated: 14:41 EST, 15 March 2016

An undocumented immigrant who accidentally ran over his 4-year-old son with a van in Ohio has been sentenced to six
months in jail, most of which he's already served.

Natividad de Jesus Hernandez pleaded guilty to forgery and a misdemeanor negligent homicide count in January, more
than two years after the December 2013 accident that killed his son, Angel Gustavo Hernandez.

A Union County judge on Monday sentenced the 32-year-old father to 180 days in jail. He had already served 167 days,
which means he will spend less than two weeks behind bars. He also faces five years of probation.


Father jailed: Natividad de Jesus Hernandez, 32 (left), was sentenced to 180 days in jail, 167
of which he had already served, in the 2013 death of his 4-year-old son, Angel Gustavo Hernandez (right)

Investigators say Hernandez is from El Salvador and used a permanent resident card with someone
else's registration number. Questions about his immigration status remain unresolved.

His attorney says the heartbroken man, who has a fiancee and a six-month-old baby daughter who
need him, will seek a way to stay in the United States legally, reported The Columbus Dispatch.

According to a friend, Hernandez has been living in the US since he was 18 years old.

Little Angel was reportedly not wearing a seatbelt or child restraint when he fell out of his father's
1997 Chevrolet Venture minivan and was run over by the vehicle on the morning of December 26, 2013.

Prosecutors said the accident occurred as Hernandez was fleeing from a construction site in
Plain City after trying to steal scrap metal.


Hernandez, who is an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador living in Ohio, ran over his boy
after Angel fell out of his minivan

A witness to the incident said Hernandez stayed on the scene with the child until an ambulance
arrived, then jumped back in the van and drove away with two other young kids in tow.

His vehicle was later found at the Ohio Health Dublin Methodist Hospital, where the child had
been transported by paramedics.

During Angel's memorial service held in early January 2014, Hernandez said through a translator
that he has been destroyed by his son's death.

Local charities and religious organizations raised more than $8,800 through a GoFundMe campaign
to send Angel's body to his mother and father's native El Salvador for burial.