Couple Plead Guilty to Torture Death of 8-Year-Old They Thought Was Gay

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A Southern California couple who beat an 8-year-old boy to death because they reportedly thought he was gay have agreed to plead guilty to murder and torture charges.

Pearl Fernandez, the boy's mother, and her former boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, reached the plea agreement last week and will be imprisoned for life without parole, avoiding the death penalty, reports Los Angeles TV station KNBC. They pleaded guity to first-degree murder and torture with special circumstances and waived their right to appeal.

Aguirre and Fernandez were accused of torturing the child, Gabriel Fernandez, for several months, calling him gay, beating him when he played with dolls, striking him with belts and baseball bats, forcing him to eat cat feces and his own vomit, dousing him in pepper spray, and locking him inside a cabinet with a sock stuffed in his mouth and refusing to let him out to use the bathroom, as previously reported.

His mother called 911 on May 22, 2013 to report that Gabriel was not breathing. When paramedics arrived at the couple's apartment in Palmdale, just north of Los Angeles, they found the child in his bedroom naked, with a cracked skull, several broken ribs, and BB pellets in his lung and groin. He died two days later. Aguirre and Pearl Fernandez were charged with capital murder shortly thereafter.

While social workers had responded to multiple reports of abuse from Gabriel Fernandez's teachers and grandfather, child welfare workers determined that Gabriel was not at risk. Social workers had even found a suicide note the boy had written, but concluded that he did not have an immediate or specific plan to take his own life.

The case was the impetus for several protests regarding a reform of Southern California's child protective services. Four social workers were discharged due to the Fernandez case. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services released a lengthy, scathing report on the case, with vast reforms suggested for the department. Because Gabriel Fernandez was under the supervision of DCFS, his maternal grandfather has filed a civil lawsuit against the agency and Los Angeles County for wrongful death. The boy had lived with his grandfather for most of his life before being returned to live with his mother.

this is just sad.

 

[obito uchiha the wraith]

i dont really care about stuff like this anymore. some people are crazy some people are stupid and cruel its just a part of life.

 

[-Shiro-]

...............

 

[Kuroh]

That's just sad. smh

 

[Kenotthib]

Idk if it's because I'm a bad person or if its because I've matured a bit. It's like I'm dull to this type of shit. Like I've seen so much ****ed up shit in this world and felt bad about it , that I just don't feel for it anymore. Maybe I've given up. Idk I'm just a silent observer nowadays.

 

[Denzel Washington]

Good parenting. Whip the kid straight.

 

[Retro Chaos]

This is why I hate America.

 

[BlazeRelease]

America.

The land of the free.

That is, free for privileged white straight men.

 

[Wabbit]

What is more immoral or sinister beating and torturing little kids or living a way which is considered abomination by a group of people or individuals?

 

[10th]

Wow, it's not even that he was gay, they just thought he was, even if he was, nothing justifies this.

 

[paratise]

Requirements we fill for online shopping are more than the ones for having a child.

All you need is reproductive organs then you can just have and "raise" kids. Damn this world.

 

[Trúth]

They should have been put through the same torture before being beaten to death.​

 

[Dãrth1]

Jesus, poor child

 

[10th]

Requirements we fill for online shopping are more than the ones for having a child.

All you need is reproductive organs then you can just have and "raise" kids. Damn this world.

There should be an obligatory parenting school that all parents and aspiring adopting parents go to in regards to how they're supposed to raise their child for optimal health, joy and security. Then we would have much less problems with future generations in general, cases like these would be very rare.

 

[Intuitive Mode Naruto]

This is why I hate America.

Shit like this could happen anywhere.

What is more immoral or sinister beating and torturing little kids or living a way which is considered abomination by a group of people or individuals?

Wtf. Being gay doesn't hurt anybody.

 

[Edo Ritsu]

What is more immoral or sinister beating and torturing little kids or living a way which is considered abomination by a group of people or individuals?

Is this a trick question?

 

[Joker]

They deserve the death penalty.

 

[The Dreamer]

An 8 year old doesn't even show any sexual behaviour so wtf...

 

[Power Bottom]

How nice. They should take a bullet up their ass