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Gabriel Fernández.

Consistently abused and tortured by his mom and her boyfriend for 8 months till he died from his injuries.

He was 8.
Gabriel Fernandez was consistently let down by the system when he most needed help.
For over 8 months Gabriel was subjected to horrific torture, which included regular beatings, being shot in the face with a BB gun, forced to eat cat faeces, locked in a cupboard for hours, and pepper-sprayed.
The cruel nightmare ultimately ended when his mother and her boyfriend beat him to death.
But even worse, the Department of Child and Family Services and law enforcement was called to the scene multiple times before Gabriel’s death — and no action was taken.
At one point, social workers even ordered Gabriel to stop lying, allowing his abusers to continue the torture until the horrific end.
Gabriel Fernandez often wrote notes to his mother, saying he would kill himself and that he just wants to be a good boy.

Days before he was murdered, he wrote a card to his mom telling her all the things he loved about her.
Pearl Fernandez, the biological mother of Gabriel Fernandez.

She was given custody in spite of concerns from her family, who had been taking care of Gabriel, that she was neglectful towards other children.
Gabriel then was moved in with his mother and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre. While in the household of his Mom and her boyfriend for 8 months, Gabriel Fernandez was systematically abused and tortured.
The abuse included being forced to eat cat litter and feces, forced to eat his own vomit, regularly beaten which caused broken bones, burned in various parts of the body, shot in various areas of the body including the face and groin with a BB gun.
Forced to wear female clothing, forced to sleep bound and gagged in a small cupboard, pepper-sprayed, burned with cigarettes, given cold baths, and forced to eat spoiled or expired foods.
According to Gabriel's siblings, while he was being abused his parents would laugh.

Her mom's boyfriend reportedly abused Gabriel because he believed he was homosexual; but there is no evidence that Gabriel was in fact, homosexual.
On May 22, 2013, Pearl Fernandez called 911 to report that her child, Gabriel, was not breathing.

Gabriel had been fatally beaten by his mother and Aguirre after failing to clean up his toys.
When first responders arrived, they found him on the ground naked with several injuries.

Aguirre explained to them that Fernandez was "gay".
Paramedics rushed him to the hospital where doctors declared him brain dead.

He passed away two days later, at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles

He died at the age of 8 years, & the official autopsy declared he died of blunt force trauma coincided with neglect & malnutrition.
His mother, Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, were both charged and convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture.
Pearl Fernandez was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and Isauro Aguirre was sentenced to death.
Ame Lynn Deal.

Ame had been the victim of long-term abuse by her family members before being locked inside a footlocker, where she subsequently died from suffocation.

She was 10.
Susan Mathews.

She was reported missing by her adoptive father. Days later, her body was found under a road in a culvert near her home.

The police later discovered that it was the same adoptive father that tortured, killed and disposed her body.

She was 3.
Marina Sabatier.

Regularly abused by her parents till she succumbed to her injuries.

She was 8.
Abuse ranged from kicks, punches, lashings with belts and iron bars, and inflicted numerous other abuses, such as cold showers, holding her head under water in the bathtub, forcing her to eat salt, vinegar and vomit, and starving her for several days at a time.
They imposed punishments such as walking her barefoot over rough ground carrying a heavy bag, and sometimes gagged their daughter with duct tape, or fastened her to her bed.
Marina died during the night of the 6 - 7 August, 2009 as a result of a particularly brutal session of abuse that evening by her parents.
Before being left naked in the cellar before nightfall, she allegedly uttered her last words that she had "mal à la tête" (a headache) and followed by "bonne nuit maman à demain" ("goodnight, Mummy, see you tomorrow").

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Nadine Lockwood.

Nadine was starved to death by her mother, who admitted to the police that she had hated the little girl and specifically singled her out for abuse.

She was 4.
Victoria Climbié.

Tortured and murdered by her great-aunt and her great-aunt's boyfriend.

She was 8.
Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed.

Murdered by her parents in a suspected so-called honour killing in due to their daughter being too Westernised.

They killed their daughter because she was behaving more like a white girl.

She was 17.
Bobby Aikia.

Tortured and killed by his mother and stepfather.

He was 10.
He was burned with cigarettes, had his genitals beaten with sticks, would be electrocuted via an electric, had liquor forced down his throat with a funnel, had a vacuum cleaner hose placed onto his penis.
Forced to lie naked in the snow where he would sometimes have snow shoveled onto him.

One time he defeated on himself, as was forced to wear the shorts on his face for two days.
The abuse reached a point where, in order to hide their actions, his parents advised his school that he would be absent for an extended period of time due to illness.

One time, he was tied to a chair and thrown out of the house.
He was eventually brought back inside by his parents and placed in front of the stove to warm up. Sometime after, he was moved to his bedroom and placed into his bed.

He died shortly after.
At this point, I think mental assessment should be normalised before allowing individuals get married cos what's all this? 😭😭😭
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