Jury finds Oregon mother guilty of beating 4-year-old son to death because she thought he was gay

[freshwest]

April 3, 2014
By Anomaly

The Washington County mother accused of beating her 4-year-old son to death because she believed he was gay, was found guilty by a jury. According to Prosecutors, 25-year-old Jessica Dutro abused, tortured and ultimately killed her son, Zachary, in August 2012 while living with her boyfriend, Brian Canady, and three other kids at a shelter in Tigard. On all 7 counts, Dutro was found guilty after only one hour of jury deliberations.

http://freakoutnation.com/2014/04/03/jury-finds-oregon-mother-guilty-of-beating-4-year-old-son-to-death-because-she-thought-he-was-gay/

KOMO News reports:

...Prosecutors accused Dutro in court on Wednesday of being a narcissistic liar who never cared whether her son lived or died. They went on to say she beat Zachary so often that it was “systematic dehumanization” of the young boy.

Dutro knew she was hurting her child and lied about it, prosectors said, They also said a then 7-year-old watched it happen.

The defense argued that that witness wasn’t reliable, but conceded Dutro may not be a great mother.

The defense countered saying she wasn’t the reason her son died but it was her boyfriend, Canady, who killed Zachary.

Canady has already taken a plea deal, according to KOMO News.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Jury-Ore-mom-guilty-of-beating-her-son-to-death-fearing-he-was-gay-253663081.html

As I post this story, I'm unsure there is anything worth adding. Posting as a current event. I cannot fathom the act nor the reasons given for the misery this little boy was put through. The two websites don't go into the life of the then seven year old child. This horror will not be over with for that child.

[JI7]

1. it is one of those where you can say the worst thing

and it will not come close to being enough to describe this piece of shit.

[sheshe2]

2. May Zachary rest in peace now.

With the angels at his side.

No words~

[joeybee12]

3. How the fuck would anyone even think a 4-year-old is gay, straight or

whatever? Jebus, that poor kid...and I hope those other kids never see their monster of a mother again?

[freshwest]

6. I remember a case in the seventies and my BF and I were talking about it. Some 'parents' had been

arrested for burning their toddler with cigarettes.

We couldn't grasp why a person would even take the time to torture a little kid. Our thought was, 'If you don't want a kid, why not just give it away?'

We couldn't get it, but in time we ran into characters who felt they had the privilege, were entitled to hit someone in their family. A couple with a small boy and dog lived next to us in a four-plex.

Mind you, when a lot us lived in a large complex with a lot of college students and a guy beat his GF, about a dozen of the guys took him aside and warned him that next time he'd be the one with black eyes and talked to him about doing something else when he got mad. It wasn't as if we were busybodies, but we weren't clueless by any means.

But, about the couple in the four plex, we'd just come back from an anti-war mobilization in D.C. and only got tear gassed, but some stayed longer and did their thing at the Pentagon. The guy next door wasn't with our group which practiced non-violence.

He came back and bragged about 'Sticking it to the Man,' and all that stuff and we said, 'Hey, cool, great.' It was in the news and all of that, but then when we were there it was in the news, too.

As time went on, we learned what was going on next door. He'd get in a mood and think he was entitled to beat his wife.

How long that went on, we didn't know, as all we heard was what sounded like arguing and didn't think it was our right to intervene. Later she explained that when she managed to get out of reach, he went for the boy and she screamed, which was the time when we went to talk to them.

But then their dog, a real sweet large female dog, got between him and the kid. So he beat the dog, who didn't even whimper and decided with her motherly instinct to take the abuse. The police wouldn't do anything, but we started spending more time on our shared porch to try to give the wife, boy and dog some peace. As the big bad 'Fuck the Pigs' guy didn't want to deal with us.

There are so many more things I could tell, like the guy who beat his pregnant wife so hard it dislocated her baby's hips in the womb and broke the baby's legs. And how I spent months later visiting the little girl and asked me to visit her since she had to go back with her spouse.

She'd come to town and told me about it as she dropped the child off at a Shriner's Hospital where they did surgery to help the toddler was. She'd been left to crawl by her parents for several years. And the mother and child stayed with the beast. God only knows what that kid's life was like growing up.

People suck at times. I still have trouble understanding why they won't break the pattern, if it was a generational thing, like they're in a trance and won't change.

I hoped people had moved forward with more awareness and education and laws passed, since the old days. I'll seen a lot of stuff, so I'll stop to avoid saying something depressing.

[joeybee12]

9. Thanks...for sharing, even though that's a bad thing to recall...

I remember as a little kid the couple next door, they were younger than my parents, she was preganant, and every once in a while we'd be playing in the yard and he'd come out chasing her and catch her and put her over his knee and spank her and say stuff like, "Now will you be a good girl?" I could have only been 6 or so but there was something very wrong about it, although I didn't know what, and the woman would see me and laugh it off...later they moved away and she divorced him, so I'm glad she didn't stay in that relationship for long, which sadly happens all too often.

[trotsky]

7. My dad thought I was gay when I was about 5-6 yrs old...

because I didn't like having dirty/sticky hands. LOL, WTF?

He never told me this, and I turned out to be straight anyway, but my mom told me years later. Ignorance is really all I can chalk it up to. Product of his upbringing, I guess. Small town America, never exposed to anyone all that different than him.

[Rex]

8. Mental illness.

Take all the factors out of it and ask...what mother would kill her 4 year old baby? Someone with a severe mental illness imo.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. There are no words. n/m

[freshwest]

5. Just tears, is all I have. And no way to undo what was done. n/t