However, Fernandez was never removed from the household. Throughout Fernandez's eight-month stay with his mother and Aguirre, multiple people reported signs of abuse to social workers with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Fernandez was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and Aguirre was sentenced to death. Pearl Fernandez and Isauro Aguirre were both charged and convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture. On May 24, 2013, Gabriel Fernandez, an eight-year-old boy from Palmdale, California, who had been abused and tortured over a period of months, died following a beating by his mother, Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, two days earlier. Kevin Bom, Patricia Clement, Gregory Merritt, Stefanie Rodriguez:Ĭhild abuse, falsifying public records (dismissed)
Life imprisonment without the possibility of paroleįirst-degree murder with special circumstances of torture Child abuse, child neglect, child murder, filicide, torture murder
