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    Does it matter Cali doesn't execute people any more so it seems....

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    Our friend Mike wrote for me below, me too I was wishing dp for the murderers


    He will never be put to death Charles. It will take at least 30-40 years for him to get through the appeals process alone.
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    Man sent to death row for killing 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez, while boy’s mother gets life in prison

    By Hugo Guzman
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    A Palmdale man was sentenced to death today, while his girlfriend was sentenced to life in prison without parole, for the torture and killing of the woman’s 8-year-old son, Gabriel Fernandez, in 2013.

    Isauro Aguirre was convicted last year of first-degree murder, while his girlfriend, Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, pleaded guilty to the same crime earlier this year.

    Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel discovered Gabriel in Palmdale on May 22, 2013, after receiving a call that he was not breathing. He was declared brain-dead that same day, and taken off life support two days later.

    According to prosecutors, Gabriel’s death followed months of torture at the hands of his mother and Aguirre. Prosecutors told jurors that Gabriel was routinely beaten, shot with a BB gun, forced to eat cat feces and sleep inside a small cabinet while gagged and bound, all because Aguirre believed the boy was gay.

    Paramedics later testified that Gabriel was found with a fractured skull, broken ribs, burned skin, missing teeth and BB pellets embedded in his groin.

    The case drew widespread outcry after Gabriel’s death, because of how the boy’s ordeal was missed by social workers, who were notified multiple times about something amiss at the Fernandez residence. Los Angeles County social workers investigated reports of abuse on six different occasions, while sheriff’s deputies also visited the home before Gabriel’s death.

    On every occasion, Gabriel was allowed to remain home with his mother and Aguirre.

    Four social workers are awaiting trial on one felony count each of child abuse and falsifying public records, while the sheriff’s deputies were reportedly disciplined, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

    Reforms were also put in place, with Los Angeles County establishing the Office of Child Protection in Feb. 2015 and appointing former Los Angeles County’s Juvenile Court Judge Michael Nash to lead it.

    Pearl Sinthia Fernandez’ guilty plea will spare family members an additional trial, which could have ended in a death sentence. Defense attorneys for Fernandez said that the death penalty would not be appropriate, however, due to an intellectual disability.

    Forensic neuropsychologist Deborah S. Miora evaluated Fernandez before the trial, and later said that she was “virtually unable to use thought to guide her behavior and temper her emotional reactions.”

    Family members expressed their relief at being spared an additional trial during the sentencing.

    “We don’t have to go through it a second time,” relative Emily Carranza told City News Service. “I don’t think anybody should have to go through that again, to see those pictures, to see what they did to him.”

    Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli called the couple’s actions “nothing short of evil,” and told the defendants that he hoped their guilt would torture them, before handing down the sentences.

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    Aguirre entered California's death row on June 13, 2018.

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    Mother Of Gabriel Fernandez Wants Conviction Vacated, Convicted Of Torturing And Murdering Son

    Pearl Fernandez has petitioned to be resentenced after pleading guilty to torturing and murdering her 8-year-old son Gabriel Fernandez.

    According to PEOPLE, the California mother was sentenced to life without the chance of parole in 2018. She has cited California penal code changes because she can no longer be convicted of first or second-degree murder, ABC7 News reported.

    The judge will hear her case on June 1, the Associated Press reported.

    “I think that she feels that somehow maybe, you know, the special circumstance will be dismissed or maybe she’ll have a chance that the D.A. will agree with the petition,” Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami told CBS2.

    The 8-year-old endured eight long months of torture at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre after he moved in with them in 2012.

    He was found naked, with a cracked skull, shattered ribs, severe burns, and BB pellets buried in his body on May 22, 2013. Two days later, he was pronounced brain dead and taken off life support.

    On the day his body was discovered, his mother and boyfriend beat him fiercely because he hadn’t cleaned up his toys, the Los Angeles Times reported.

    His older brother testified that his younger brother was forced to eat cat feces and cat litter. He was also made to sleep “bound and gagged inside a small cabinet.”

    “My mom and her boyfriend made Gabriel eat spoiled stuff or expired stuff,” the brother added.

    Prosecutors from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office stated in a press release that he was “frequently beaten by Aguirre because he believed the boy was gay.”

    Aguirre was found guilty and sentenced to death for the 2018 murder. He remains on San Quentin’s Death Row.

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    $32 million LA County settlement over alleged torture death of 10-year-old Anthony Avalos

    By Los Angeles Daily News

    LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County would pay $32 million under a tentative settlement of a lawsuit filed by relatives of a 10-year-old Lancaster boy who died in 2018 after allegedly being subjected to extensive torture by his mother and her boyfriend, attorneys said Wednesday.

    The settlement of the county’s portion of the lawsuit over the death of Anthony Avalos was announced in court last week, but no terms were disclosed. Attorneys for the family held a news conference Wednesday to announce the $32 million settlement amount, which is still pending approval from the county Board of Supervisors.

    The lawsuit accused the county and multiple social workers of failing to properly respond to reports of abuses of Anthony and his half-siblings.

    “This little boy should not have endured anything that he did,” plaintiffs’ attorney Brian E. Claypool said. “Anthony knows he did not die in vain because he died so other kids could live.”

    The settlement leaves Pasadena-based Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services as the only remaining defendant in the lawsuit brought in July 2019. That part of the case is set for trial Sept. 6.

    Claypool said he and the Avalos family will urge that three new laws be enacted in the wake of Anthony’s death, including one that would require county social workers to communicate with a mental health agency such as Hathaway-Sycamores so the agency knows the child’s full history before commencing work.

    Claypool also said the time for abused children to file claims against the county is six months, just as with adults, far too short a period for someone so young.

    “It’s just completely inexcusable and makes no sense,” Claypool said, adding that the time for filing should be extended to when the child is 18 years old.

    The suit alleges Hathaway-Sycamores assigned employee Barbara Dixon to work with the family even though she had allegedly not reported abuse in the case of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez of Palmdale, who, like Anthony, was killed while in the care of his mother and her boyfriend. According to Claypool, Dixon was an unlicensed intern and his third suggestion for a new law is that all such workers be mandated to be licensed.

    In their court papers, attorneys for Hathaway-Sycamores state the plaintiffs make no allegations as to what Dixon allegedly witnessed or whether she suspected any abuse that was not already part of what the county Department of Children and Family Services already knew.

    A grand jury indicted Heather Maxine Barron, 32, and her boyfriend, Kareem Ernesto Leiva, 36, in October 2018 on charges that they murdered the boy and abused two other children in the household. The District Attorney’s Office in May 2021 reversed course and announced it would no longer seek the death penalty against the pair, who now face a possible maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.

    Anthony’s father, Victor Avalos, said during the news conference that he still has trouble coping with his son’s death.

    “Nothing is going to bring him back,” Victor Avalos said.

    Anthony’s aunt, Maria Barron, held a photo of a smiling Anthony. She said the boy lived happily with her and her husband, David Barron, for seven years until the county Department of Children and Family Services ordered him returned to his mother.

    “I truly believe Anthony could have been saved if DCFS did its job properly,” Maria Barron said.

    Prosecutors allege that Anthony was severely tortured during the last five or six days of his life by his mother and Leiva. The alleged abuse included whipping the boy with a belt and a looped cord, pouring hot sauce on his face and mouth, holding him by his feet and dropping him on his head repeatedly, according to a prosecution court filing.

    From 2013 until his death in 2018, reports of abuse were made to the DCFS that Anthony and his six half-siblings were denied food and water, beaten, sexually abused, dangled upside-down from a staircase, forced to crouch for hours while holding heavy objects, locked in small spaces with no access to a bathroom, forced to fight each other and forced to eat from the trash, according to the plaintiffs’ court papers.

    “Despite these continued allegations of abuse, and some being found substantiated, DCFS continued to leave the children in Barron’s and Leiva’s care, exposing Anthony and his half-siblings to continued torture and abuse,” the plaintiffs’ court papers alleged.

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    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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