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On May 23, 2013, an alarming call was received by the emergency services. A man reported that his child was not breathing, allegedly he slipped in the bathroom during a fight with his brother. At the hospital, medics made every effort to restore the boy's pulse and snatch him from the jaws of death.

The doctor immediately began dictating to the nurse a list of all the injuries on the child's body. They could barely count the number of injuries, it seemed that there was not a single healthy spot left on the boy's skin.

All over his body there were bruises, traces of rope around the Achilles tendon, injuries to the skin of the legs, characteristic of the child being dragged along the ground for a long time, knocked-out teeth, a deep skull injury, broken bones, a gunshot wound from a pneumatic weapon in the groin area and a bullet in the lung, broken ribs, as well as cigarette burns all over the body. It was evident that the injuries had been inflicted over several months. Many of the injuries had already healed.

Immediately after stabilizing the child's condition, he was transferred to the children's hospital, where brain death was soon diagnosed in the boy. Everyone had one question: how could this have happened?

How could the poor child endure so much suffering? The ambulance workers could not hold back their tears after what they saw. Gabriel Fernandez was only eight years old when he was killed.



Gabriel was born to the couple Pearl Fernandez and Arnold Contreras. This couple could hardly be called responsible parents. Pearl categorically did not want a child, and Arthur Contreras was behind bars again.

The whole family, including her father Robert Fernandez, begged Pearl to get rid of the child. She already had two children from Arnold, and she did not engage in their upbringing in any way, so they were worried that it would be the same with the third child. The only person who persuaded Pearl not to get rid of the child was Mike Fernandez, her own brother.

He lived in a same-sex marriage with David and convinced Pearl to give the baby to them for upbringing after birth. Pearl had a wonderful relationship with Mike, and she readily agreed. Three days after giving birth, Pearl called her brother in a panic and begged him to take the child.

She said that he was constantly crying and annoying her. For Mike and David, Gabriel was their whole world. They raised him as a son.

Staying with his uncle was the happiest moment in Gabriel's life. He grew up in love and knew no pain. Pearl and Arnold were welcome guests in Mike and David's home.

They did not interfere with communication with the child in any way, but unlike Arnold, Pearl never showed sympathy. Even jokingly, she often called him gay. When asked why, she replied that he says he loves them both, and that's not normal.

Robert and Sandra Fernandez were raising two more of Pearl's children: Ezequiel, and Virginia. Robert was an opponent of same-sex relationships, and when Gabriel turned three, he decided to take him away. Mike and David were not going to give up the child, because neither Robert, nor Sandra, nor Pearl wanted Gabriel to be born.

Everyone asked to get rid of the baby, and only after Mike and David decided to give the child a future, not abandoning him in the first days of life, teaching him to walk, talk, love - he suddenly became necessary to someone. Gabriel's grandfather insisted on his own. He was a staunch opponent of same-sex marriages and claimed that they could not raise a normal child.

Soon, an anonymous call was received by social services that Michael and David Fernandez were allegedly subjecting the child to sexual abuse. The boy was removed from the family for the duration of the check. Robert recalled that at first Gabriel constantly asked to go back and asked, "Grandpa, when are we going home?".

And time after time Robert replied, "Now you will live with us, Gabriel". Arnold was in prison again, and soon Pearl had a new boyfriend - Isauro Aguirre. He seemed very promising, modest and hardworking.

Pearl Fernandez had a violent character from childhood, and it seemed to relatives that she had finally found a person who could resist her aggressive temper. Pearl expressed her emotions very vividly. She often made scenes and even in public places was not ashamed to attack offenders.

But, unfortunately, Isauro's image was only a mask. At home, together with Pearl, they arranged a real hell for Gabriel. Their couple led a rather dubious lifestyle.

They were far from the image of an ideal family. But, nevertheless, in 2011, Pearl decided to try on the role of a mother. For each child, they paid benefits.

Having learned about this way of earning money, she could not miss the opportunity to make money on children. In 2011, Pearl took custody of Ezequiel and Virginia. Robert saw that his daughter showed hostility towards Gabriel, felt neither love nor interest.

For her, he was a stranger, so he refused to give up his grandson. In 2012, Isauro came to the home of Robert and Sandra Fernandez. He informed them that they were arranging a family barbecue and asked to let his grandson visit them, to see his brother and sister for a couple of days.

Grandfather could not forbid his grandson to see his relatives and reluctantly agreed. A couple of days later, the grandson did not return. They called the police, reported the kidnapping of the child, but at the local sheriff's office they decided that Pearl, as a mother, had every right to Gabriel.

She needed money for the third child, and she clung to her son with a death grip. The boy did not understand what was happening, he was passed from hand to hand like a toy. A child who had been rejected by all the closest people from birth suddenly became necessary to everyone.

Gabriel moved in with his mother and her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre, as well as 11-year-old Ezequiel and 9-year-old sister Virginia. Jennifer Garcia, Gabriel's teacher, recalled that when she first met Gabriel's parents in the lobby, she noticed that they did not look like caring guardians. Usually in the first days of school, parents squat down next to the child and explain where to get lunch or just wish them a good day.

It seemed that Isauro and Pearl were more interested in each other than in their own child. Gabriel Fernandez was the complete opposite. He was a sincere and innocent child.

He craved attention from Garcia. For the sake of words of gratitude, he often stayed during breaks to help teachers tidy up papers. In addition, he was an extremely sociable and smiling boy.

Already in the first week, he easily made a couple of friends. But after two weeks, Gabriel began to ask Garcia very alarming questions. At the first lesson, Gabriel approached Garcia and quietly whispered in her ear so that no one could hear.

"Is it normal for a mother to beat her children?" Garcia remembered her childhood and said, "Well, it happens, some parents punish for misdeeds. Let's talk during the break". When the break came, the boy continued, "And is it normal when mothers beat with the metal part of the belt?

You mean the buckle?" "Yes, and after that there is blood". Immediately after the lesson, Garcia called the hotline for child abuse. The call was recorded.

Garcia sounded very clumsy, she was a relatively novice teacher and was faced with such a situation for the first time. But when she told Steve Reid, a social worker, about the belt buckle and that the mother beats the boy until blood comes out, Steve immediately interrupted her and asked her to tell if there were any other alarming moments. Garcia recalled that when there was an anti-drug lecture at school, Gabriel said that cocaine is also a drug, you need to pinch your nose and inhale.

Soon, Stephanie Rodriguez called Garcia. She reported that from that day on, she would supervise the Fernandez family and asked to call directly if they saw or learned something suspicious. Jennifer Garcia felt that the child was now definitely safe.

A few days later, there was a school assembly, Pearl and Gabriel entered Garcia's office. Jennifer was afraid to be in the same room with her and left the classroom door ajar. As soon as she began to talk about Gabriel's successes, Pearl leaned back in her chair and interrupted with the phrase, "I don't beat my children!".

Garcia was confused and after an awkward pause continued to talk about Gabriel's successes. Pearl looked very skeptical. Gabriel's behavior began to deteriorate.

He was often late or did not come to school. In addition, he began to behave defiantly in class. He often distracted other students and Garcia had to move his desk.

In addition, he began to rarely go out to the yard during breaks to play with other children. On those rare days when Garcia saw him in the yard, he stood alone and kicked stones. On Monday, November 16th, Gabriel was late.

Looking around, the children saw that he had a strange haircut. Someone grabbed Gabriel by a tuft of hair, the tuft fell to the ground and scabby wounds became visible on his head. Gabriel froze with shame.

Immediately after the end of the lesson, Garcia took Gabriel to the principal to show the boy's injury. She immediately called Rodriguez, but none of the numbers left answered. Gabriel was absent the next day.

But when he returned, his hair remnants were styled in a Mohawk and he looked relatively normal. But the events of November 16th did not give Garcia peace. She wanted to tell Rodriguez about what happened, but every time she got the voicemail.

The next day, Gabriel arrived at school with a split lip. When Garcia asked, Gabriel said that his mother hit him in the face. Garcia called Rodriguez again, who finally deigned to pick up the phone.

Garcia demanded answers as to how Pearl Fernandez would explain the haircut and the split lip. But Rodriguez said that confidentiality rules do not allow her to talk about it. Weeks passed.

The situation with Gabriel was getting worse every day. In physical education, he got tired of all the children and said that his arms and legs hurt a lot. Sometimes at the end of the lesson, he cried and said that he did not want to go home, he was afraid.

Closer to the end of January, Gabriel, as usual, was late for the lesson. When he entered the classroom, silence fell. The children were frightened by the boy's appearance.

Around Gabriel's eyes, two huge bruises were visible. The child's face was so swollen that it was barely possible to make out the slits of the eyes. The whole face was dotted with small hemorrhages.

Garcia calmly asked him to sit down. And waiting for the break, she immediately began to ask the boy what happened. "I fell".

She said, "Gabriel, I don't believe you, why are you lying to me? You didn't do that before". She saw the child start to get angry.

He replied, "My mother shot me with an air gun". Garcia was struck by the boy's answer, but calmly asked, "Okay, but why did you lie to me?". "When I tell you, that lady comes, and it gets even worse for me".

Gabriel was so afraid that Rodriguez would come to their house that he was ready to remain silent and endure all the beatings of his mother. Garcia did not know what to do. The boy asked not to report to social services.

All her efforts only made the situation worse. But on the other hand, the parents almost killed the child, and it was impossible to remain silent. Despite Gabriel's pleas, she called Rodriguez.

Garcia was sure that the boy would now definitely be taken away from the family, but Rodriguez did not answer, saying that she had no right to discuss the situation in the family with her. Rodriguez was an extremely irresponsible employee. She supervised many families in the Los Angeles area and believed that Pearl and Isauro did not threaten the child in any way.

She also did not consider past investigations against Pearl, and in the past there were complaints of domestic violence. During all this time of Rodriguez's work, she never once went to school to see the child, did not question the neighbors, and also never talked alone with Gabriel, Ezequiel or Virginia, as required by department policy. After all, in the presence of the abuser, the children were simply afraid to tell the truth.

When Rodriguez first came to the Fernandez family, she asked about the buckle incident. Gabriel, in the presence of his mother, said that he had made up the whole story. Rodriguez still examined the child and noticed a rather large bruise on the left buttock.

Then Pearl admitted that yes, she beat the child with a belt. Rodriguez decided that it was a trifle, but asked Pearl to take drug tests, which later came back negative. Three weeks later, Rodriguez returned to the family for an inspection.

In her report, she stated that the children were dressed properly and were healthy. Another week after Garcia's call that the boy had been shaved, his entire head was covered in wounds and his lip was split, she again visited the Fernandez family, but in the report she wrote that the boy had blisters on his lips because he had a bad habit of biting himself. Rodriguez made her last visit after Garcia reported that the child had been shot with a gun.

But the mother lied that the bruises on the boy's body were formed after he fell off his bike. For Rodriguez, it sounded convincing, and she decided to end the investigation, because in her opinion the boy was not in any danger. Moreover, she did not even require the boy to undergo a medical examination.

Who did Gabriel have to live with? Who was Pearl Fernandez? Pearl did not finish school and studied only up to the eighth grade.

From the age of 12, she began to take drugs, which greatly affected her mental development. She hardly worked, because it was difficult to get a job due to a very aggressive character. Later she was diagnosed with depressive disorder, mental retardation, personality disorder, post-traumatic syndrome, eating disorder.

She testified that all her life she was subjected to domestic violence by her husband and parents, that at a young age she was raped by her own uncle, and also was subjected to gang rape twice. She claimed that Sandra's own mother wished her dead, so Pearl ran away from home at the age of 11. Perhaps in Gabriel she saw the same little victim that she once was, and projected all the hatred onto him.

She deliberately looked for a reason to hate, and she found it. Because of Aura, Pearl made up a story that Gabriel was gay. Pearl did not show such hatred towards other children.

Gabriel was the smallest and most defenseless. She forced Gabriel to wear girls' clothes, stuffed a sock in his mouth, tied bandanas and locked him in the closet of her bedroom. At the same time, not at all ashamed after that to satisfy herself or have sex with Aura in the same room.

She forced him to eat cat feces. For fun, she forced Gabriel to sit in an icy bath for hours. When Carmen LaNeergandt, a social worker and home psychologist, came to the house, Pearl provided Gabriel's suicidal notes, which she allegedly found a week and a half ago.

There were several notes, but the meaning was the same - "I will kill myself out of love for you." The psychologist took the boy aside and asked, "Do you really want to kill yourself?" He replied, "Yes." Pearl reported that he used to live with his grandparents and recently moved in with her, so he often throws tantrums about it and wants to go back.

In her opinion, these notes were nothing more than a way to attract attention to herself. And if he really wanted to kill himself, he would have done it long ago. The psychologist noted that the note had no content or action plan, and she agreed with Pearl.

But despite everything, she reported this incident to senior management and called Nine One One to keep an eye on the family. That day, police officers visited the Fernandez home, but left without talking to the child. Pearl's story was enough for them.

It is still unclear what motivated Pearl to provide these notes to the social worker. Perhaps even then she was beginning to prepare the ground for getting rid of her son. It is hard to imagine the fear of an innocent child.

Waiting for salvation, the boy screamed for help, but the people who were supposed to protect, time after time ignored the child. Pearl's younger sister, Mirisa Fernandez, was very close to Gabriel. Once, when she came to visit, she saw the boy's disfigured face.

He had a huge bruise under his eye and two teeth knocked out. At first, he did not want to tell how he got the injuries. He made up stories about fights at school, that he fell off his bike, but in the end, he said that Pearl and Isauro beat him.

Mirisa was frightened and wanted to help, but at that time she was a minor and could not provide protection for little Gabriel. She decided to spend the night at Isauro's house. When Mirisa was visiting, Pearl and Aguirre behaved more restrainedly.

She also told her parents about the incident so that they would go to the police, but the police did not take any action. Gabriel desperately tried to win Pearl's love. He copied poems from books, hoping that his mother would read and love him.

Once he even stole Garcia's iPad to please Pearl. But instead, she punished him and the next day sent him to school in girls' clothes. In a tiny pink shirt and polka dot leggings.

Classmates did not laugh at Gabriel, on the contrary, they supported him. And someone even lent him a baggy shirt. Garcia lost hope that social services would somehow help the child.

She tried to enroll him with the school psychologist, but she said that there were no places and offered to pass a brochure to the Pearls on how to deal with problem children. At the end of April, after Rodriguez's last visit, Gabriel did not show up at school for 13 days. When he went back to school, ironically, the school was working on a Mother's Day project.

He looked much worse than usual. There was a hemorrhage in his left eye, bruises all over his body. The skin of the face was all covered in pink spots, as if after small healed wounds.

Garcia did not ask Gabriel what happened. She only asked if he really wanted to make a Mother's Day greeting card. But Gabriel wanted to.

He loved his mother, he worked on every little detail. When he finished, the card was in the shape of a house. At the top, the inscription "Open the door and find out who loves you" was visible and he pasted his photo.

He gladly agreed to pose for a photo on the Mother's Day card. He proudly held a sign with letters and smiled, hoping that his mother would see and love him. Garcia called Rodriguez to report that the boy had been abused again, but Rodriguez did not pick up the phone and did not call back.

Two days later, in class, Gabriel complained to Jennifer Garcia that his eye hurt a lot and asked to go to the school nurse Donna Evans. He reported that he fell off his bike and his eye hurt a lot, but begged not to send him home early. Evans detailed the boy's situation in order to later pass it on to child protection services, but she had no right to make a diagnosis.

Nevertheless, she called Pearl Fernandez to pick up Gabriel early. It was a big mistake. She knew about the boy's dangerous situation.

After arriving home, Pearl and Aguirre locked Gabriel in the closet. Ezequiel repeatedly tried to break down the door to pass some food to his brother. Pearl and Isauro ordered Ezequiel to beat Gabriel.

If he did not agree, they beat him too. Ezequiel whispered in his brother's ear to fall after the first blow so that the parents would leave them alone. They inventively mocked Gabriel in various ways.

They shot from an air gun, forcing him to run. They beat him painlessly with a bat. They sprayed pepper spray in his face.

They beat him with steel-toed boots. Pearl was a monster who kept children for money. And so another time, while filling out documents at the Los Angeles County Social Security Office, guard Arturo Miranda Martinez noticed Gabriel.

He recalled, "I noticed that the boy had a lot of cigarette burns on the back of his head. Some were fresh and some were healing.

When he turned to me, I noticed purple green bruises around his eyes. His mother was constantly shouting and hitting him on the head. I went up to her and asked her to stop.

After that, the boy passed by my desk. Sliding his fingertips across the tabletop, he looked up at me. My heart just sank somewhere down.

He didn't need to say anything. His injuries, his eyes, and he seemed to be screaming for help. His body was screaming 'help'.

He seemed to purposely come up to me and show his hands. Cigarette burns and traces of pood were also visible on them." Arturo immediately approached Martina Corona, the employee who was talking to Pearl.

He asked if she had noticed this child. Martina, of course, saw Gabriel, but the bosses ordered her not to interfere and threatened to fire her. Gabriel needed help.

Martina still went against protocol and passed the name and contact information of the family. Risking both their jobs, Arturo called 911. He insisted that the police should check the Fernandez family and urgently take the child out of the family.

But the operator said that the situation did not look like an emergency. He gave him another phone number for emergency situations and with the phrase "Don't you have anything better to do? Everyone beats their children!" he hung up.

He called the number left and was later told that the deputy sheriff had checked Gabriel's family but had not noticed anything suspicious. 29 days later, the child died. For eight months the child endured torture and screamed for help.

A couple of days before his death, Gabriel called his grandfather Robert Fernandez. He begged to take him away and said that he wanted to go home. Grandfather tried to calm him down.

He said that now he cannot, but the department for children's affairs is already working on his return. Grandfather promised that he would return home soon. On May 22, Gabriel was taken to the hospital.

There was not a living place on the boy's body. Skull fracture, burns, abrasions, traces of pood, cat feces were found in the stomach, bullets from a pneumatic weapon in the groin, as well as in the lung, an abraded wound on the neck, multiple cuts. The doctors pronounced brain death.

When the police arrived at the crime scene, they began to mark blood splatters with red stickers throughout the apartment. However, there was so much blood that they had to switch to yellow stickers. Gabriel's blood was even in the kitchen sink.

Isauro beat the child to death. Ezequiel and Virginia witnessed the murder, but could not help in any way. Moreover, Pearl, immediately after the murder of Gabriel, asked her daughter to wash the blood around her brother before the medics arrived.

On May 24, Sandra Fernandez disconnected Gabriel from the life support machine. Michael died a year later without saying goodbye to the child. Gabriel's father, Arnold, was in prison at the time.

The pastor took him out of the cell and told him that his child had been killed. After Gabriel's death, Robert and Sandra Fernandez filed a lawsuit against the Sheriff's Office and other organizations involved in the case. The jury deliberated for five hours before finding Isauro Aguirre guilty of torture and murder and sentencing him to death.

And Pearl Fernandez received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Virginia and Ezequiel moved to relatives in another state. They refused to testify against Pearl.

They just wanted to forget what they had been through. All four social workers avoided criminal punishment, were found not guilty, but were removed from their positions. Gabriel was an innocent, brave child.

For long months he endured torture, pain and humiliation. But despite everything, he continued to love his mother and dream that soon everything would be fine. Netflix made a detective series based on real events about this case.

I strongly recommend watching it. Thank you for watching!