08-22-2014, 07:28 PM
IT DOESN'T GET ANY WORSE 
This case led to a CPS worker being fired and a shake up in the entire LA county organization. Antelope Valley, CA has a high degree of crime and abuse, but reportedly some of the least experienced and most overworked case workers. What was allowed to happen to Gabriel Fernandez is fucking terrible.
The details of the grand jury testimony were released just this week -- beyond cruel and inhumane.
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RIP Gabriel Fernandez, 8.
Overview:
Gabriel was abused to death in May 2013. The abuse worsened in the months leading up to Gabriel's death, according to testimony from two of his siblings, both of whom are minors. They said Gabriel was forced to eat cat feces, rotten spinach and his own vomit. He slept in a locked cabinet with a sock in his mouth to keep him from screaming and wasn't let out to go to the bathroom. Fernandez and Aguirre called Gabriel gay, punished him when he played with dolls and forced him to wear girls' clothes to school, the siblings said.
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Pearl Fernandez ^ and her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre hit her son Gabriel with a belt buckle, a metal hanger, a small bat and a wooden club, Gabriel's brother said. Their mother once jabbed Gabriel in the mouth with a bat and knocked out several teeth, according to testimony. His mother and her boyfriend doused him with pepper spray.
On the day of the fatal beating, Fernandez began hitting Gabriel because he didn't want to pick up his toys, his older brother testified. She dragged him into a bedroom, where Aguirre joined her, and the siblings heard screaming and banging, he said. "And that's when it all stopped," said the brother, 13. "It just went quiet."
Gabriel's mother, Pearl Fernandez, called 911 on May 22, 2013, to report that her son was not breathing. She told sheriff's deputies who arrived at the apartment that Gabriel had fallen and hit his head on a dresser, according to testimony. When paramedics arrived, they found Gabriel naked in a bedroom, not breathing, with a cracked skull, three broken ribs and BB pellets embedded in his lung and groin. He died two days later.
Fernandez and Aguirre hid their tracks with forged doctor's notes and lies to authorities, Deputy Dist. Atty. Jonathan Hatami told the grand jury. "For eight straight months, he was abused, beaten and tortured more severely than many prisoners of war," Hatami said.
"It was just like every inch of this child had been abused," testified James Cermak, a Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedic.
Full story: http://www.latimes.com/local/countygover...tml#page=1
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This poor boy had raised flags and generated reports to CPS by teachers and others several times; he was never removed from the home. The CPS check ups and reports were half-assed at best.
Both PearL Fernandez and Isauro Aguirre face capital murder charges. They've pleaded not guilty to Gabriel's murder. If California has a death penalty then, they will fry -- they deserve that and more.
This case led to a CPS worker being fired and a shake up in the entire LA county organization. Antelope Valley, CA has a high degree of crime and abuse, but reportedly some of the least experienced and most overworked case workers. What was allowed to happen to Gabriel Fernandez is fucking terrible.
The details of the grand jury testimony were released just this week -- beyond cruel and inhumane.
RIP Gabriel Fernandez, 8.
Overview:
Gabriel was abused to death in May 2013. The abuse worsened in the months leading up to Gabriel's death, according to testimony from two of his siblings, both of whom are minors. They said Gabriel was forced to eat cat feces, rotten spinach and his own vomit. He slept in a locked cabinet with a sock in his mouth to keep him from screaming and wasn't let out to go to the bathroom. Fernandez and Aguirre called Gabriel gay, punished him when he played with dolls and forced him to wear girls' clothes to school, the siblings said.
Pearl Fernandez ^ and her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre hit her son Gabriel with a belt buckle, a metal hanger, a small bat and a wooden club, Gabriel's brother said. Their mother once jabbed Gabriel in the mouth with a bat and knocked out several teeth, according to testimony. His mother and her boyfriend doused him with pepper spray.
On the day of the fatal beating, Fernandez began hitting Gabriel because he didn't want to pick up his toys, his older brother testified. She dragged him into a bedroom, where Aguirre joined her, and the siblings heard screaming and banging, he said. "And that's when it all stopped," said the brother, 13. "It just went quiet."
Gabriel's mother, Pearl Fernandez, called 911 on May 22, 2013, to report that her son was not breathing. She told sheriff's deputies who arrived at the apartment that Gabriel had fallen and hit his head on a dresser, according to testimony. When paramedics arrived, they found Gabriel naked in a bedroom, not breathing, with a cracked skull, three broken ribs and BB pellets embedded in his lung and groin. He died two days later.
Fernandez and Aguirre hid their tracks with forged doctor's notes and lies to authorities, Deputy Dist. Atty. Jonathan Hatami told the grand jury. "For eight straight months, he was abused, beaten and tortured more severely than many prisoners of war," Hatami said.
"It was just like every inch of this child had been abused," testified James Cermak, a Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedic.
Full story: http://www.latimes.com/local/countygover...tml#page=1
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This poor boy had raised flags and generated reports to CPS by teachers and others several times; he was never removed from the home. The CPS check ups and reports were half-assed at best.
Both PearL Fernandez and Isauro Aguirre face capital murder charges. They've pleaded not guilty to Gabriel's murder. If California has a death penalty then, they will fry -- they deserve that and more.