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Jun 3, 2021 · Pearl Sinthia Fernandez enters her guilty plea in the death her son, Gabriel Fernandez, in 2018. A judge this week rejected a resentencing request by a Palmdale woman who pleaded guilty to first ...
- lila.seidman@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Murder of Gabriel Fernandez. 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 due to a beating from his mother, Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, two days earlier. Pearl Fernandez and Isauro Aguirre were charged and convicted of ...
- Incompetent Law Enforcement. As depicted during the series, sheriffs were called to the house by other family members days before the murder — but took no action.
- The Abusers’ Homophobic Motives. According to family members, Pearl and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, would call Gabriel “gay.” In fact, the first thing he told law enforcement when they responded to the 911 call was that Gabriel Fernandez was gay, which confused officers.
- The Horrifying Evidence. At the crime scene, the investigator came in with red stickers to mark blood spatter around the apartment. However, there was so much blood, that she soon ran out of the color and had to switch to yellow stickers.
- Gabriel’s Suicide Note and Pleas for Mother’s Love. Gabriel Fernandez often wrote notes to his mother, saying he would kill himself and that he just wants to be a good boy.
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Born on February 20, 2005, in Palmdale, California, Gabriel Fernandez had a difficult family life from the start. According to The Wrap, his mother, Pearl Fernandez, didn’t want another child and even left him at the hospital. In fact, Pearl already had a record of child neglect and abuse. One year earlier, Booth Law reportsthat a relative had noti...
On May 22, 2013, Pearl Fernandez called 911 to report that her son, Gabriel, was not breathing. Paramedics arrived and found the boy with broken ribs, a fractured skull, missing teeth, and BB pellet wounds on his body. “I tried to feel his heart,” Pearl Fernandez’s boyfriend Isauro Aguirre said, according to The Atlantic, placing the blame for Gabr...
In the aftermath of Gabriel Fernandez’s death, both Pearl Fernandez and Isauro Aguirre were arrested and charged with the boy’s murder. Pearl pled guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. “I want to say I’m sorry to my family for what I did,” Pearl Fernandez said in court in 2018, according to the Los Angeles Times. “I wis...
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Aug 1, 2022 · Netflix’s ‘The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez‘ shows the ugly truth behind the horrific death of the 8-year-old Gabriel. Although fingers can be pointed at the system, the DCFS, the sheriff’s department, and even Isauro Aguirre, who admitted to dealing the final blow that killed Gabriel, one cannot simply ignore that Gabriel’s biological mother, Pearl, was […]
Mar 18, 2020 · Netflix's true crime docuseries The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez tells the story surrounding the events that led up to the brutal murder of 8-year-old boy Gabriel Fernandez in 2013. Gabriel was ...
Jun 1, 2021 · Pearl Fernandez, now 37, was sentenced in March 2018 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the May 2013 killing of her son, Gabriel, but contended in an April 1 petition that she ...
