A prosecutor said a woman and her boyfriend are “evil” and “monsters” and should be held accountable for the murder and torture of her 10-year-old son, while the woman’…
By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH | City News Service
The murder count includes the special circumstance allegation of murder involving the infliction of torture. Over Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami’s objection, 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.
Hatami told the judge that the prosecution believes the boy died of a combination of starvation and dehydration, blunt force trauma, chronic child abuse and torture and failure to seek medical treatment. The prosecutor said Barron and Leiva “weren’t trying to save Anthony” but were “trying to save themselves” when Barron called 911 on June 20, 2018, after the boy was left on the floor for about two days following about two weeks of abuse. Barron concealed Leiva’s involvement and coached the boy’s two half-siblings on what they should say, Hatami said.“She wasn’t suffering from intimate partner violence.
“I would submit to the court that Ms. Barron … she didn’t have the power to prevent this. She didn’t have the power to say no,” Sperber told the judge. The defense lawyer said Leiva had been left alone with the boy — who was at home while being punished — while Barron took her other children on errands, and was in another room at other times caring for her three youngest children, who had been fathered by Leiva.
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