'You failed your son and also God. Not even animals do what you did,' Anthony Avalos' grandmother said to his mother, Heather Barron, during her sentencing.
Hatami -- who objected to the decision and has announced plans to run for the job as the county's top prosecutor -- told reporters that he had refused to comply with an order by Gascón to remove the special circumstance allegation, which would have resulted in a 25-year-to-life sentence in which the two defendants could have eventually been eligible for parole.
He testified during the trial that he split from Barron when the boy was about 6 or 7 months old and that he only saw him on video chats after moving to Mexico to find a job. He said then that he loved the boy "very much" and still can't believe what he's going through."We loved him very much. But because the system chose to look the other way, he was put in the hands of the devil," Diuguid said.
Hatami noted that the defendants "blamed Anthony" for his injuries, and that they were both abusive before meeting each other. Hatami told the judge that the prosecution believes that Barron had seven children within eight years because she "wanted them for the money" she received in government benefits.
Leiva was in charge of discipline in the house and forced the children to fight each other when they were left in his care when Barron wasn't home, according to Sperber.She told the judge that Leiva survived his own attempt to slit his throat because he is "so evil" that the devil didn't even want him.
He told the judge that the intersection between the testimony of two of Anthony's younger half-siblings and one of Leiva's daughters -- who said they saw Leiva repeatedly dropping Anthony -- and the medical evidence "will show reasonable doubt on the issue of intent to kill."
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