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| This 8 year old was murdered for "being gay." |
Although hate crimes have increased in the last year, many are still not reported. In Oct. the President said the VP would prefer to see all gay people hanged. Gay people face hate crimes DAILY and in California on Oct. 18 a trial began for a man who allegedly tortured and killed an 8-year-old for being gay.
UPDATE on Nov. 17 at 10am ET: California man has been convicted of torturing and killing his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, driven the prosecution argued by his belief that the boy was gay. Isauro Aguirre was found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday in the May 2013 death of Gabriel Fernandez. A jury must now decide whether Aguirre, 37, should receive the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering Gabriel, who was declared brain dead and taken off life support two days after paramedics arrived at his home in Palmdale, California.
Trial Begins For Man Who Allegedly Tortured, Killed 8-Year-Old Boy For Being Gay
Source: link to hate crimes story
The murder trial of a man accused of brutally abusing and then killing an 8-year-old boy because the boy was thought to be gay has begun in Los Angeles, with a prosecutor detailing the “systematic torture” of the boy.
Gabriel Fernandez was repeatedly beaten, sustaining a fractured skull
and broken ribs, and suffered burn marks, Los Angeles County Deputy
District Attorney Jonathan Hatami told a jury Monday. The child was starved, fed cat feces and his own vomit, sprayed with pepper stray and tied up and forced to sleep in a closet, the prosecutor said in his opening statement.
Isauro Aguirre, 37, the boyfriend of the boy’s mother, is charged with murder and facing the death penalty in the case. The mother, 32-year-old Pearl Fernandez, also is charged with capital murder and will be tried separately.
Gabriel Fernandez was found gagged and bound in a cabinet in the couple’s home in Palmdale, California, when first responders discovered him on May 22, 2013. He was declared brain dead and taken off life support two days later.
UPDATED STORY: Man Pleads Guilty of Murdering 8 Year Old
Isauro Aguirre, 37, the boyfriend of the boy’s mother, is charged with murder and facing the death penalty in the case. The mother, 32-year-old Pearl Fernandez, also is charged with capital murder and will be tried separately.
Gabriel Fernandez was found gagged and bound in a cabinet in the couple’s home in Palmdale, California, when first responders discovered him on May 22, 2013. He was declared brain dead and taken off life support two days later.
UPDATED STORY: Man Pleads Guilty of Murdering 8 Year Old
