US man sentenced to death for torture killing of 8-year-old

US man sentenced to death for torture killing of 8-year-oldA US man was sentenced to death on Thursday for the torture killing of his girlfriend's eight-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and forced to sleep in a closet until his death in 2013. The boy's mother, Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the death of her son, Gabriel. The pair were arrested in 2013 after paramedics were called to a home in Palmdale, northeast of downtown Los Angeles, and found Gabriel unconscious and with a broken skull as well as broken ribs and BB pellets lodged in his groin.




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June 08, 2018 at 01:44AM

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