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✔ Click here to Google translate the following story into your own language Las series, documentales y podcasts sobre crímenes viven actualmente un auge y en medio de este, Netflix lanzó el pasado 26 de febrero del 2020 la miniserie 'The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez'.  El programa relata los acontecimientos que llevaron a la muerte del pequeño de ocho años en Palmdale (California) en el año 2013 y la cadena de negligencias  llevó al trágico desenlace de la historia.  "¿Es normal que las mamás golpeen a sus hijos?" Esa fue la pregunta que Gabriel Fernández, entonces de 7 años, le hizo a su profesora Jennifer García, una de las primeras en alertar a los servicios sociales sobre la situación que el niño vivía en casa. Él quería saber si era normal ser golpeado con la hebilla metálica de un cinturón. "¿Es normal sangrar?" insistió.   Meses después el pequeño murió como consecuencia de los golpes que recibió en su casa. Su padrastro fue sentenciado ...

Newly released texts reveal the horrifying treatment a 12-year-old Montana boy received from relatives before he was beaten to death on the living room floor last month.   James 'Alex' Hurley, died February 3 and his grandparents, 47-year-old James Sasser Jr. and 48-year-old Patricia Batts, as well as his 14-year-old uncle James Sasser III are charged with deliberate homicide.  Hurley's 18-year-old aunt, Madison Sasser, texted her boyfriend that the child should 'go die in the woods' and described him as 'a piece of (crap) off of my f**king shoe', the Billings Gazette reports.  Sasser and Hurley's six-year-old uncle lived with the relatives who allegedly physically abused and starved the child. According to documents, Hurley was made to sit half-naked in front of fans and was sprayed with water. Batts is said to have commented, 'that’s what they do with cats, right?' The grandmother told detectives Hurley 'drove her nut...

THE TRIALS OF GABRIEL FERNANDEZ is streaming on Netflix now and for those who have not made it through the full series or haven't yet watched are curious to know what happened to Gabriel Fernandez's parents following his death. Express.co.uk has everything you need to know about his parents Pearl Fernandez and Arnold Contreras. The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez on Netflix explores the shocking and heartbreaking true story of eight-year-old Gabriel, who was the victim of child abuse.  The six-part series is not an easy viewing, which follows what happened to Gabriel, the subsequent criminal trial and explores the failings of the Los Angeles Child Protection Services. Pearl Hernandez and her partner Isauro Aguirre were found guilty of murdering Gabriel Fernandez, who died on May 24, 2013. Arnold Contreras Arnold Contreras is Gabriel Fernandez’s biologically father. He is also the father of Gabriel’s older siblings, Ezequiel and Virginia. During the time...

Paramedics arrived to the house to find the eight-year-old boy not breathing. His skull was cracked, three ribs broken and his skin bruised and burned. Two of his teeth were missing, BB pellets punctured his lungs and groin and he was found naked in his bedroom. He died just two days later. All because his mother and her boyfriend suspected him of being gay for playing with dolls. It was a case that ruptured California in 2013, but nearly seven years since the death of Gabriel Fernandez, judges threw out charges against his social workers, the Los Angeles Times reported. Social workers accused of ‘minimising’ had no power to control the boy’s abusers, justices rule.  RELATED |  California: Man Sentenced to Death, Woman to Life in Prison for Boy’s Torture-Murder A panel of three judges ruled that social workers Stefanie Rodriguez, 34, and Patricia Clement, 69, should not face child abuse charges over the killing of the child. The child’s superviso...

Royal M. suffered head and neck injuries on Nov. 6, 2018 in a case that became a homicide, officials said. A young mother was charged Friday with assault causing the death of her 7-month-old baby, the 3rd time in recent years that a mother has been charged with her child's murder in the Antelope Valley. Anaiyah Perry, 21, did not enter a plea when she appeared in court in Lancaster, and was ordered held in jail in lieu of $2 million. She's expected to appear in court again for her arraignment in 2 weeks. The coroner's autopsy found that baby Royal M. died of blunt force neck trauma, and determined it to be a homicide. But the law enforcement investigation stretched 10 months before authorities this week arrested Perry, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office filed counts of assault and murder. A 911 call brought emergency responders to a Lancaster home the afternoon of last Nov. 6. The child was airlifted to Children's Hospital in Lo...

Anthony Avalos was the fastest runner in his fourth-grade class at El Dorado Elementary School in Lancaster. He earned a place on the honor roll, and his teacher, Harmony Bell, noticed an uncommon emotional maturity for a boy his age. He often collected his thoughts before speaking, asking Bell if he could step out of the room and take a few deep breaths. When a new student joined the class, he asked to move to a neighboring seat, hoping to be the friend the newcomer needed. Yet Bell saw that Anthony was often nervous about something. He held his Bible tightly throughout the day, once quaking with tears when it fell to the floor. Anthony would never return to school after classes ended last year. The next month, the 10-year-old arrived at a hospital emergency room with fatal bleeding in his skull. His body showed signs of prolonged abuse. His skin was bruised and burned from head to toe. His once-healthy frame had wasted to skin and bones. The coroner's r...