Parents torture & kill 10-year-old after he says he 'likes boys'

[DonViejo]

Source: LGBTQ Nation




By Alex Bollinger · Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Investigators said that a 10-year-old child who died recently after years of physical abuse may have come out as gay just before he was killed.

Last Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to a 911 call at Anthony Avalos’s home and were told by his mother Heather Barron that the child had “suffered injuries from a fall.”

He had severe head injuries and cigarette burns on his body, and his mother and her boyfriend Kareem Leiva had been reported numerous times for child abuse. Anthony was unresponsive and taken to the hospital, where he died a day later.

Since 2013, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and the police received 16 calls from school officials and family members concerning child abuse by Barron and Leiva. At least 13 of those calls, according to an anonymous source who spoke with the LA Times, were about Anthony specifically, not one of his six siblings.


Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/06/parents-torture-kill-10-year-old-says-likes-boys/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Have to fight religious fundamentalism, bigotry, fear of the other, and mental illness.

The second last with care, and the last with care and compassion.

[Initech]

2. Lock these monsters up and throw away the key!

[iluvtennis]

11. +++++ agree

[olegramps]

3. It is difficult to imagine what type of punishment these monsters should be subjected to.

[sandensea]

4. I think Cheeto just found his Supreme Court nominee.

Sure, I'm exaggerating - but not by much.

[area51]

5. Poor child.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. Smells of abuse of power

These parents must have had some relative or close aquantence working in the DCFS to be allowed to get away with this for so long. I hope there is a thorough investigation.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Once they start to 'pray the gay away'

some will take it to the most logical extreme of 'by any means possible'

including "slay the gay away"

[braddy]

14. What religion do MS-13 killers practice?

[rogue emissary]

8. How the hell did they keep their children after having sixteen calls concerning abuse???

Most of these stories the children had no one to turn to for help. In this case, family members and school officials called about abuse allegations. Which means it had to be glaring signs of abuse for outsiders to get involved.

[democrank]

9. 16 ABUSE CALLS SINCE 2013.... 16!

DCFS needs a tough, thorough, top-to-bottom overhaul and clean out. Kardashian tweets get more attention and reaction than these heartbreaking stories about abused children.

Any DUers who were abused as children and who had nobody to rescue them from their abusers know what horrific, long-term damage can come of this.

[democrank]

10. Rest in peace, precious Anthony Avalon.

.

[d_r]

12. I am so disgusted

that this kid was not protected:

Since 2013, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and the police received 16 calls from school officials and family members concerning child abuse by Barron and Leiva. At least 13 of those calls, according to an anonymous source who spoke with the LA Times, were about Anthony specifically, not one of his six siblings.

A 2013 investigation also concluded that Anthony was sexually abused by a grandparent.

DCFS Director Bobby Cagle said that the reports included accusations that Anthony and his siblings were denied food and water, sexually abused, beaten, dangled upside-down from a staircase, forced to crouch for hours, locked in a small room without a bathroom, forced to fight, and told to eat from the trash.

[braddy]

13. The boyfriend is MS-13.

[oberliner]

16. Kareem Leiva

[braddy]

17. I don't understand.

[oberliner]

18. That's the name of the BF

May he rot.

[braddy]

19. Oh, I knew that but I wondered if the 'Kareem' meant something in regards to religion or MS-13.

[oberliner]

20. I doubt religion played a role here

Seems like just pure evil to me.

[Judi Lynn]

24. Mother's Boyfriend Arrested on Suspicion of Murder in Death of Lancaster Boy

The death of 10-year-old Anthony Avalos, found unresponsive at his family's apartment, has been classified as "suspicious"
By Eric Leonard and Jonathan Lloyd
Published 3 hours ago | Updated 2 hours ago

Authorities arrested the boyfriend of a mother of a 10-year-old Lancaster boy on suspicion of murder Wednesday after suspected physical and sexual abuse, NBC4 has learned.

Kareem Leiva, 32, who detectives and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services identified as the boy's stepfather, was told he would be taken into custody during an interview with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide detectives at an unmarked law enforcement office on Sierra Highway.

At the conclusion of the interview Leiva pulled down his shirt collar to reveal a day-old gash across his neck, an injury he told detectives was self inflicted as part of a suicide attempt, law enforcement sources said.

NBC4 was outside as paramedics were called to treat Leiva, who was taken by ambulance to a hospital with a sheriff’s escort.

More:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Boy-10-Child-Abuse-Death-Lancaster-Arrest-Parents-486726941.html

[oberliner]

15. He was tortured and abused for years, along with his siblings

Disturbing story.

Years of abuse allegations reported at Lancaster home before boy died

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-boy-death-20180623-story.html

[TNNurse]

21. Please get those surviving children

some loving real parents.

[rickyhall]

22. Bring back public hanging.

[LuckyLib]

23. Parents who bring a child to the ER and claim "he fell" have no idea how savvy the

medical staff is about such claims. Whether it's a 3 month old or a 10 year old, they are on to the BS that abusive parents try to peddle, know what fall injuries look like, and know how most parents react to such accidents. Abusers have strange reactions. Authorities are called and law enforcement enters the picture.