The educator called a child abuse hotline on Sept. 18, 2015, after Anthony Avalos told her that he was being abused at home.
10-year-old boy
The murder count includes the special circumstance allegation of murder involving the infliction of torture. Over the objection of Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office dropped its bid for the death penalty against the two after the election of District Attorney George Gascón, who issued a directive that “a sentence of death is never an appropriate resolution in any case.
She said the boy told her that his father was in Mexico and that his aunt and uncle were going to be his mom and dad from then on.“Yes,” Greaux responded. In emotional testimony Wednesday, Anthony’s fourth-grade teacher broke down in tears when she discussed the boy’s last day in school. The teenager said the boy told his classmates that he needed to play with a rainbow-colored football at school because he couldn’t play with it at his own house. She said the boy frequently asked other students for leftover food and requested extra snacks when they were handed out in class.
“Anthony Avalos graduated the fourth grade on June 7th, 2018, and for two consecutive weeks he was abused and tortured every single day culminating to when the first responders found his lifeless body on June 20th,” Teymouri said.Teymouri told the judge that there had been multiple contacts with the county’s Department of Children and Family Services dating back to 2014.
Leiva subsequently acknowledged that he had the boy kneel on uncooked rice and admitted that he had rendered him unconscious for about five minutes just days earlier, according to the prosecutor. Chambers told the judge that many of the statements by the children are “inconsistent,” saying that their initial statements “showed a lack of any actions on behalf of Mr. Leiva with respect to the treatment of Anthony” and that “Mr. Leiva’s conduct allegedly grew worse” as the children underwent further questioning.
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