70 Pound Child Tortured for 8 Months by His Mother’s 270-Pound, 37-Year Old Boyfriend
Jurors in Los Angeles deliberated for seven hours before concluding Wednesday that Isauro Aguirre be sentenced to death. Aguirre was convicted of torture and first-degree murder after an eight month long campaign of attacking his girlfriend’s 8-year old son, Gabriel Fernandez, because he thought the boy was gay. Ultimately, Aguirre beat the 70-pound child to death. Aguirre and his girlfriend were both charged. Pearl Fernandez is being tried separately.Â
Aguirre will officially be sentenced in March, KABC News reports.
Gabriel was forced to eat his own vomit, cat feces, locked in a box, shot at with a BB gun in his neck, face, lung, legs, buttocks, foot, chest and groin area, beaten, and made to wear pink leggings and a pink top to school all because his mother and her boyfriend believed he was gay.
During the trial the attending physician present when Gabriel was brought to the hospital, Dr. Alyssa Rake, “said she found a depressed skull fracture, bruising on his eyes and some missing upper teeth,”ABC 7 reported. “She saw different stages and ages of bruising and scars, small circular cuts and that he had a deep lash on the base of his penis and a burn mark.”Â
She told the court he was brain dead at the time he was brought to the hospital.
From radiological images, Rake found Gabriel had a broken skull, a hematoma on his head, swelling on the brain, a deviation of his nose, removed teeth, neck swelling, a cut to his liver and a hematoma on it, and that he had lung disease.
Rake said Gabriel also had multiple old and new rib fractures, a BB in his lung and a swollen knee.
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